gov.bill-summaries

Stream the latest US Congressional bill summaries via Congress.gov. Each row is a CRS-authored summary attached to a specific version of a bill (Introduced, Reported to House, Engrossed in Senate, Public Law, etc.). Filter by congress + bill type. Returns the underlying bill metadata + summary text + version code + action date. Use this for change-detection on bills you care about, or to power agent-side "what did Congress just pass" feeds.

price

$0.0012 USDC per call

method

GET/api/gov/bill-summaries

payment

x402 v2 · USDC on Base (EIP-3009) or Solana (SPL transfer)

auth

None. Sign the payment, retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.

tier

Tier 0 — no paid upstream

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`congress`	integer	min 1 · max 200
`type`	string	one of: hr \| s \| hjres \| sjres \| hconres \| sconres \| hres \| sres
`fromDate`	string	match ^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$
`toDate`	string	match ^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$
`sort`	string	one of: updateDate+desc \| updateDate+asc
`limit`	integer	min 1 · max 250
`offset`	integer	min 0

Code samples

cURLbash

# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/gov/bill-summaries?congress=1&type=hr&fromDate=2024-01-01&toDate=2024-01-01&sort=updateDate%2Bdesc&limit=25&offset=0'

# 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE:
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/gov/bill-summaries?congress=1&type=hr&fromDate=2024-01-01&toDate=2024-01-01&sort=updateDate%2Bdesc&limit=25&offset=0' \
  -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>'

# Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry):
#   EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \
#     --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \
#     'https://2s.io/api/gov/bill-summaries?congress=1&type=hr&fromDate=2024-01-01&toDate=2024-01-01&sort=updateDate%2Bdesc&limit=25&offset=0'

TypeScript / Node — @2sio/sdktypescript

import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'

const client = new TwoS({
  privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})

const result = await client.gov.billSummaries({
  "congress": 1,
  "type": "hr",
  "fromDate": "2024-01-01",
  "toDate": "2024-01-01",
  "sort": "updateDate+desc",
  "limit": 25,
  "offset": 0
})

console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)

Python — 2siopython

import os
from twosio import TwoS

client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])

result = client.gov.bill_summaries(congress=1, type="hr", fromDate="2024-01-01", toDate="2024-01-01", sort="updateDate+desc", limit=25, offset=0)

print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)

MCP — Claude Desktop / AgentKit / any MCP hostjson

// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
//    EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "2sio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
      "env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
    }
  }
}

// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "gov.bill-summaries",
    "arguments": {
      "congress": 1,
      "type": "hr",
      "fromDate": "2024-01-01",
      "toDate": "2024-01-01",
      "sort": "updateDate+desc",
      "limit": 25,
      "offset": 0
    }
  }
}

Discovery

/api/directory — full catalog of every endpoint
/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 spec (per-op x-payment-info, x402Payment security)
/.well-known/x402 — machine-readable service descriptor for x402-aware crawlers
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — MCP SEP-1649 server card
/llms.txt — plain-text manifest for LLM ingestion

2s.io is x402-native. Every call is paid per-request from a USDC-funded EVM wallet on Base — no signup, no API keys, no monthly fees. Source code: github.com/2s-io/sdk.