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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:
Total6,512
Searchable1,261
Targets1,259
Entity types:
People1,259
Positions2
Countries:
United States1,261
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:2024-10-12 08:45:15
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 file18.64 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format688.94 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON4.56 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV209.37 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
Kevin MullinPersonUnited States
LaMonica McIverPersonUnited States
George HelmyPersonUnited States
Greg LopezPersonUnited States
George R. Nethercutt Jr.PersonUnited States
Max L. MillerPersonUnited States
Andrea SalinasPersonUnited States
Nick LangworthyPersonUnited States
Shontel M. BrownPersonUnited States
Kevin KileyPersonUnited States
Jay ObernoltePersonUnited States
John S. DuartePersonUnited States
John JamesPersonUnited States
Maxwell FrostPersonUnited States
Ed PerlmutterPersonUnited States