Congress

{
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:01:30.069Z",
  "note": "Keyword search covers the 250 most recently updated bills of the 119th Congress (every word must appear in the title). The Congress.gov API has no full-text search.",
  "query": {
    "congress": 119,
    "q": "artificial intelligence"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "bill": "H.R. 10768",
      "congress": 119,
      "cosponsors": 0,
      "introduced": "2026-10-09",
      "latestAction": {
        "date": "2026-10-09",
        "text": "Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce."
      },
      "link": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10768",
      "originChamber": "House",
      "policyArea": null,
      "sponsor": {
        "name": "Rep. Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7]",
        "party": "R",
        "state": "MI"
      },
      "status": "Not yet law",
      "title": "To establish the Office of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Threats within the Executive Office of the President, and for other purposes."
    }
  ],
  "returned": 1,
  "scanned": 250,
  "source": "Congress.gov API v3 (https://api.congress.gov), Library of Congress; US government public data",
  "total": 2
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/congress?congress=119&limit=5&q=artificial+intelligence'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/congress?congress=119&limit=5&q=artificial+intelligence' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.002 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.002" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.002 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.sitecheck-api.workers.dev%2Fapi%2Fcongress
const res = await pay("https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/congress?congress=119&limit=5&q=artificial+intelligence");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.002 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.002"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/congress?congress=119&limit=5&q=artificial+intelligence")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)