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Congress Bills Tracker: Recent US Bills and Status

How it works

Track recently updated US Congress bills and resolutions from the free GovInfo bulk data: sponsor, latest action, status, policy area, subjects, cosponsor count, committee and congress.gov link. No login, no API key, no proxy.

Input options

FieldNameRequiredWhat it does
congressCongress numbernoWhich Congress to read. 119 is the 2025-2026 Congress.
billTypesBill typesnohr = House bills, s = Senate bills, hjres/sjres = joint resolutions, hconres/sconres = concurrent resolutions, hres/sres = simple resolutions.
keywordKeywordnoOptional. Every word must appear in the title, latest action, policy area, sponsor or subjects, for example "artificial intelligence".
policyAreaPolicy areanoOptional official policy area text, for example Health, Taxation, Armed Forces and National Security or Energy.
statusStatus containsnoOptional. For example: Became law, Passed House, Passed Senate, In committee, Reported by committee, Introduced.
sinceDateLatest action sincenoOptional date in YYYY-MM-DD form. Keeps bills whose latest action is on or after this date.
minCosponsorsMinimum cosponsorsnoOptional. Keep bills with at least this many cosponsors.
maxItemsMax rowsnoStop after this many rows, most recent action first. You pay only for rows delivered.

Output fields

One row per result. These are the 26 fields declared in the actor's dataset schema (field list from the schema, not a sample run).

FieldTypeMeaning
billIdstring
billTypestring
billNumberstring
billLabelstring
congressinteger
titlestring
shortTitlestring
sponsorstring
sponsorPartystring
sponsorStatestring
introducedDatestring
latestActionDatestring
latestActionstring
daysSinceLatestActioninteger
statusstring
publicLawNumberstring
policyAreastring
subjectsarray
cosponsorCountinteger
committeestring
committeesarray
originChamberstring
actionCountinteger
urlstring
updatedAtstring
scrapedAtstring

Limits, stated plainly

Public data only, no login. Fields a source does not publish come back empty rather than guessed. Coverage and freshness follow the underlying public source.

Price

Pay on Apify, no subscription: $0.00074 per bill row (pay per event). The live price is on the actor page.

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