Nonpartisan U.S. Congress data: bill decodes, rep lookup, bilingual EN/ES, read-only, no accounts.
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Get the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g. "hr-2701-119") or citation (e.g. "H.R. 2701" - resolves to the most recent Congress on a match). Returns the AI-generated summary (headline, tl;dr, what/who/why/cost - automatically checked before publish and clearly labeled when present), the official status in plain language, a decision_state (pending, settled or enacted, with the official record's own sentence in settled_reason once the decision is settled or enacted), an urgency band and an urgency_score (the score is ranked from status and recency alone; decision_state, not the score, says whether a decision is still ahead), sponsor, key dates, the official Congress.gov page, and - while the decision is still pending - an act_url to Oravan's on-site call flow. This tool never drafts a phone script - script generation happens only on-site, where the caller reads and can edit the script before dialing; that is not available over this API.
Bill slug, e.g. "hr-2701-119". Takes priority over citation when both are given.
Response language: "en" (default) or "es".
Bill citation, e.g. "H.R. 2701" or "S.J.Res. 99". Used only when slug is omitted.
Get the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g. "hr-2701-119") or citation (e.g. "H.R. 2701" - resolves to the most recent Congress on a match). Returns the AI-generated summary (headline, tl;dr, what/who/why/cost - automatically checked before publish and clearly labeled when present), the official status in plain language, a decision_state (pending, settled or enacted, with the official record's own sentence in settled_reason once the decision is settled or enacted), an urgency band and an urgency_score (the score is ranked from status and recency alone; decision_state, not the score, says whether a decision is still ahead), sponsor, key dates, the official Congress.gov page, and - while the decision is still pending - an act_url to Oravan's on-site call flow. This tool never drafts a phone script - script generation happens only on-site, where the caller reads and can edit the script before dialing; that is not available over this API.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| slug | string | Bill slug, e.g. "hr-2701-119". Takes priority over citation when both are given. |
| locale | string | Response language: "en" (default) or "es". |
| citation | string | Bill citation, e.g. "H.R. 2701" or "S.J.Res. 99". Used only when slug is omitted. |
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"properties": {
"slug": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Bill slug, e.g. \"hr-2701-119\". Takes priority over citation when both are given."
},
"locale": {
"enum": [
"en",
"es"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Response language: \"en\" (default) or \"es\"."
},
"citation": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Bill citation, e.g. \"H.R. 2701\" or \"S.J.Res. 99\". Used only when slug is omitted."
}
}
}Get full details for one member of Congress by bioguide ID (e.g. "W000797"), plus their 5 most recently active sponsored bills. Facts only: no scorecards, ratings, or vote grades.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| locale | string | Response language: "en" (default) or "es". |
| bioguide* | string | Bioguide ID, e.g. "W000797". |
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"required": [
"bioguide"
],
"properties": {
"locale": {
"enum": [
"en",
"es"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Response language: \"en\" (default) or \"es\"."
},
"bioguide": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "Bioguide ID, e.g. \"W000797\"."
}
}
}Look up a person's U.S. House member and two Senators by 5-digit ZIP code. Returns each member's name, party, phone, official website, portrait URL, and district office phone numbers - the number a constituent should actually call. Some ZIP codes span more than one congressional district (needs_address: true, all candidate districts returned); this tool does not perform address-level refinement itself in this release - point the person to the response's reps_url, where a stateless, unlogged Census-geocoder proxy narrows it to a single district from a street address that Oravan never stores. When a House seat currently has no member, `vacancies` lists the empty seat(s) (state + district) explicitly - the departed member is never returned as if still serving, and no election timeline is implied.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| zip* | string | 5-digit U.S. ZIP code. |
| locale | string | Response language: "en" (default) or "es". |
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"required": [
"zip"
],
"properties": {
"zip": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^\\d{5}$",
"description": "5-digit U.S. ZIP code."
},
"locale": {
"enum": [
"en",
"es"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Response language: \"en\" (default) or \"es\"."
}
}
}Search Oravan's bilingual federal bill corpus by free-text query, issue topic, status, or active-only. Returns short teasers (headline, status, decision_state, urgency) for matching bills, most urgent first. The urgency_score is ranked from status and recency alone; decision_state says whether a decision is still ahead.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max results (default 20, max 50). |
| query | string | Free-text search. Every word must appear somewhere in the bill title, short title, plain-language headline and summary, or topic names (any order, accents ignored). A bill number in any common form ("H.Con.Res. 89", "hconres 89", "hconres-89-119") matches that bill exactly. |
| topic | string | One of the 12 issue categories. |
| locale | string | Response language: "en" (default) or "es". |
| status | string | Bill status to filter to. |
| active_only | boolean | Exclude signed/vetoed (terminal) bills when true. |
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Max results (default 20, max 50)."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text search. Every word must appear somewhere in the bill title, short title, plain-language headline and summary, or topic names (any order, accents ignored). A bill number in any common form (\"H.Con.Res. 89\", \"hconres 89\", \"hconres-89-119\") matches that bill exactly."
},
"topic": {
"enum": [
"jobs_economy",
"health",
"national_security",
"environment_energy",
"government_democracy",
"crime_justice",
"family_community",
"education",
"immigration",
"ai_technology",
"housing",
"rights_liberties"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "One of the 12 issue categories."
},
"locale": {
"enum": [
"en",
"es"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Response language: \"en\" (default) or \"es\"."
},
"status": {
"enum": [
"committee",
"markup",
"floor_vote",
"passed_chamber",
"conference",
"signed",
"vetoed",
"introduced"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Bill status to filter to."
},
"active_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Exclude signed/vetoed (terminal) bills when true."
}
}
}What's moving in Congress recently: active, plain-language-decoded bills that cleared Oravan's 'act now' urgency bar within the last N days (default 7), optionally filtered by topic. Returns an honest empty list with quiet_week: true when nothing has cleared the bar - this tool never pads the list to look busier than Congress actually is this week. If the list is empty because Oravan's own data sync looks stale rather than Congress being quiet, data_stale is set instead so that distinction is never lost.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| days | integer | Lookback window in days (default 7). |
| limit | integer | Max results (default 10, max 50). |
| topic | string | One of the 12 issue categories. |
| locale | string | Response language: "en" (default) or "es". |
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"properties": {
"days": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 90,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Lookback window in days (default 7)."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Max results (default 10, max 50)."
},
"topic": {
"enum": [
"jobs_economy",
"health",
"national_security",
"environment_energy",
"government_democracy",
"crime_justice",
"family_community",
"education",
"immigration",
"ai_technology",
"housing",
"rights_liberties"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "One of the 12 issue categories."
},
"locale": {
"enum": [
"en",
"es"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Response language: \"en\" (default) or \"es\"."
}
}
}