gov.congress-member

Look up or search members of the US Congress via Library of Congress Congress.gov API. Pass bioguideId (e.g. M001190) to fetch one member (full bio, terms, party history, leadership roles, sponsored + cosponsored legislation counts, official website, address). Or filter by congress + state + district, with currentMember=true to limit to seated members. Bioguide IDs are stable across history and are the canonical Congress-member identifier.

price

$0.0012 USDC per call

method

GET/api/gov/congress-member

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
`bioguideId`	string	match ^[A-Z]\d{6}$
`congress`	integer	min 1 · max 200
`state`	string	min 2 chars · max 2 chars · match ^[A-Za-z]{2}$
`district`	integer	min 0 · max 60
`currentMember`	boolean
`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/congress-member?bioguideId=example&congress=1&state=xx&district=0&currentMember=false&limit=25&offset=0'

# 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE:
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/gov/congress-member?bioguideId=example&congress=1&state=xx&district=0&currentMember=false&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/congress-member?bioguideId=example&congress=1&state=xx&district=0&currentMember=false&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.congressMember({
  "bioguideId": "example",
  "congress": 1,
  "state": "xx",
  "district": 0,
  "currentMember": false,
  "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.congress_member(bioguideId="example", congress=1, state="xx", district=0, currentMember=False, 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.congress-member",
    "arguments": {
      "bioguideId": "example",
      "congress": 1,
      "state": "xx",
      "district": 0,
      "currentMember": false,
      "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.