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US Members of the Congress

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

The US Congress is the collection of members of both houses of its legislature - the Senate and the House of Representatives. Members of the House of Representatives are elected to serve a two-year term representing the people of each person's district. Each state, regardless of its size, has at least one representative. Each member of the Senate is elected to serve a six-year term representing the people of that person's state. Each state, regardless of its size, has two senators. Senatorial terms are staggered, so every two years approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election. Each staggered group of one-third of the senators is called a 'class'. No state has both its senators in the same class. Source: Wikipedia

Data overview

Entities:
Total6,504
Searchable1,262
Targets1,260
Entity types:
People1,260
Positions2
Countries:
United States1,262
Publisher:United States Congress (Congress) · United States

The Library of Congress is an agency of the legislative branch of the U.S. government. Among other resources, The Library of Congress publishes congress.gov and the beta Congress.gov Application Programming Interface (API).

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Information:api.congress.gov
Source data:api.congress.gov · JSON
Coverage:added · update frequency: daily
Last processed:2024-12-12 08:44:05
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities2.51 MB
names.txtTarget names text file18.65 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format687.8 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON4.55 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV208.99 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Tony WiedPersonUnited States
Erica Lee CarterPersonUnited States
Glenn IveyPersonUnited States
Kathy E. ManningPersonUnited States
Ilhan OmarPersonUnited States
Shri ThanedarPersonUnited States
John JamesPersonUnited States
Jeff JacksonPersonUnited States
Gregory F. MurphyPersonUnited States
Andrew R. GarbarinoPersonUnited States
Cori BushPersonUnited States
Mike FloodPersonUnited States
Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr.PersonUnited States
Wiley NickelPersonUnited States
Nick LaLotaPersonUnited States