congress_bills

One row per congressional bill, ingested from the Congress.gov v3 REST API (/bill list endpoint) by build_congress_bills. The legislative record complementary to the regulations.gov dockets/documents view — the bills that authorize the rulemakings this dataset tracks. Scope is deliberately list-level only (no per-bill detail fetches), so every column comes from the list payload. Incremental by update_date, deduped on bill_id. All columns are stored as VARCHAR.

• Parquet file: congress_bills.parquet
• Queryable via MCP query_sql: Yes

Column	Type	Description
bill_id	VARCHAR	Synthetic key {congress}-{type}-{number} (e.g. 118-hr-1234). Primary key / dedup key.
congress	VARCHAR	Congress number the bill was introduced in (e.g. 118).
bill_type	VARCHAR	Bill type, lowercased (e.g. hr, s, hjres, sjres, hconres, sconres, hres, sres).
bill_number	VARCHAR	Bill number within its (congress, bill_type) (e.g. 1234).
title	VARCHAR	Bill title as returned by the list endpoint.
origin_chamber	VARCHAR	Chamber the bill originated in (House or Senate).
latest_action_date	VARCHAR	Date of the most recent action on the bill (ISO 8601 string). Often the useful sort/recency signal.
latest_action_text	VARCHAR	Text describing the most recent action on the bill.
update_date	VARCHAR	Date the Congress.gov record was last updated (ISO 8601 string). Incremental window key.
url	VARCHAR	Congress.gov API URL for the bill's detail resource.