{
  "name": "congressgov-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · Congress.gov (bills, laws, CRS reports) MCP",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "Congress.gov legislative data: bills (status, actions, sponsors/cosponsors, subjects, CRS summaries, text versions with optional plain text via GovInfo, related bills), enacted public and private laws, and Congressional Research Service reports (keyword search over the CRS catalog + report details). Live official Congress.gov API v3.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Policy & Regulatory",
  "datasets": [
    "POL-04"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://congressgov.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/congressgov-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "Congress.gov API v3 (Library of Congress) + GovInfo bill text",
    "url": "https://api.congress.gov/",
    "license": "U.S. Government works (public domain); CRS reports are public domain works of the Library of Congress",
    "refresh": "live (edge cache 1 h for lists, 6 h for details); CRS title catalog bundled (refreshed on deploy)"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "congressgov_bill_lookup",
      "title": "Look up Congress.gov bills",
      "description": "Bill operations on the Congress.gov API: list (bills of a congress, optionally one bill type, most recently updated first), get (title, sponsor, introduced date, policy area, latest action, committees with referral/report activity, laws, CBO estimates, item counts), actions, cosponsors, text (text versions with GovInfo PDF/HTML/XML links; include_text returns plain text of the newest or a chosen version, paged), subjects (legislative subjects + policy area), summaries (CRS bill summaries as plain text), related (related bills). Bill types: hr, s, hjres, sjres, hconres, sconres, hres, sres ('H.R.' and 'S.' are accepted). No keyword search here: use govinfo-mcp govinfo_search (collection BILLS) to find bills by words."
    },
    {
      "name": "congressgov_enacted_laws",
      "title": "List or get enacted laws",
      "description": "Public and private laws enacted by a congress (Congress.gov API). list: laws of a congress (newest update first) with the bill that became each law and the date of the 'Became Public Law' action when it is the bill's latest action. get: one law by number (e.g. congress 119, lawType pub, lawNumber 21 = P.L. 119-21) with its bill, sponsor, enacted date (from the bill's actions) and GovInfo public law PDF/HTML links."
    },
    {
      "name": "congressgov_crs_reports",
      "title": "Search or get CRS reports",
      "description": "Congressional Research Service products on Congress.gov. list: keyword search over the titles and ids of all CRS products (bundled catalog from the Congress.gov API, all words must match, newest published first), with content type and published-after filters. get: one report by number (e.g. R46943, IF10922, LSB11490) live from the Congress.gov API with authors, publish date, version, summary, topics, PDF/HTML links and related laws/bills."
    },
    {
      "name": "congressgov_describe_dataset",
      "title": "Describe sources and limits",
      "description": "Returns the live sources, API key mode, CRS catalog snapshot size and date, bill types, cache times and known limits."
    }
  ]
}