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Congress Gov List Bills Example

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Congress Gov List Bills Example is an example object payload from US House of Representatives, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

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{
  "summary": "Example response from Congress.gov API listing recent bills",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr?limit=3&offset=0&format=json&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "bills": [
        {
          "congress": 119,
          "type": "HR",
          "number": "1234",
          "title": "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credits for domestic manufacturing.",
          "originChamber": "House",
          "originChamberCode": "H",
          "introducedDate": "2026-01-15",
          "latestAction": {
            "actionDate": "2026-04-20",
            "text": "Referred to the Subcommittee on Tax Policy."
          },
          "updateDate": "2026-04-21T12:00:00Z",
          "url": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1234?format=json"
        },
        {
          "congress": 119,
          "type": "HR",
          "number": "1235",
          "title": "National Infrastructure Investment and Innovation Act",
          "originChamber": "House",
          "originChamberCode": "H",
          "introducedDate": "2026-01-16",
          "latestAction": {
            "actionDate": "2026-04-18",
            "text": "Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure discharged."
          },
          "updateDate": "2026-04-19T09:30:00Z",
          "url": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1235?format=json"
        },
        {
          "congress": 119,
          "type": "HR",
          "number": "1236",
          "title": "Broadband Access for Rural Communities Act of 2026",
          "originChamber": "House",
          "originChamberCode": "H",
          "introducedDate": "2026-01-17",
          "latestAction": {
            "actionDate": "2026-03-12",
            "text": "Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 342-89."
          },
          "updateDate": "2026-03-13T14:00:00Z",
          "url": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1236?format=json"
        }
      ],
      "pagination": {
        "count": 8432,
        "next": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr?limit=3&offset=3&format=json"
      },
      "request": {
        "billType": "hr",
        "congress": "119",
        "contentType": "application/json",
        "format": "json"
      }
    }
  }
}