congress-legislators
reference corpus · status live · domain LAW (Law and regulation) · lane A · refresh pinned · tags GLOBAL · US-CONGRESS · LEGISLATORS · GOVERNMENT-DATA · CC0 · LEGISLATIVE
What an agent uses it for
An agent resolving U.S. lawmakers, committees, or bill sponsors queries this for the CC0 dataset of current and historical members of Congress with cross-walk IDs and terms.
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerj-org/xerj/corpus-hub/tools/xerj-code/hub/congress-legislators.jsonxerj corpus add --from ./congress-legislators.jsonxerj corpus index congress-legislators then xerj code congress-legislators "your question"Needs the xerj CLI and a local node running; the copy prompt covers both, checks each step, and shows how to stop only the node you started. No shell: the MCP tool xerj_code_search with corpus: "congress-legislators", once the corpus is indexed on the node.
Sources and pins
| source | pin | licence | size | review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| congress-legislators | d5af3d2d2490 | CC0-1.0 | 12.3 MB / 71 files | licence host-verified (ok-spdx): CC0-1.0 |
12.3 MB across 71 files. Added 2026-10-13.
Rights
CC0-1.0. Redistribution permitted with attribution per the licence review. The review block records a human opening each licence file at the pin. Detector output is a hint, never the verdict.
Retrieval spot-check (G7)
Not yet spot-checked. Queries are pre-registered in the registry before grading.