Evidence-backed facts
- Congress.gov shares a versioned public API for machine-readable bills, amendments, laws, committees, members, nominations, treaties, and related legislative data. informative
- Requests require a free api.data.gov key, which must remain outside public assets and be subject to the service's documented limits. informative
- Clients must bind congress number, resource type, identifiers, update windows, format, limit, offset, and pagination links rather than infer a complete corpus from one list. informative
- Legislative metadata and text can change during the legislative process and do not replace authenticated official publications, enacted-law verification, or legal advice. informative