Public Finance & Government

Bill summaries

Plain-language summaries of bills prepared by CRS (Congressional Research Service). Easier to understand than full bill text.

get/api/v1/congress/summaries

Query parameters

congressinteger

US Congress number (e.g. 119 for 2025-2026).

bill_typestring

US bill type (hr, s, hjres, sjres, hconres, sconres, hres, sres).

limitinteger

Max results

Response

Bill summaries.

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
    "data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
    "response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
    "provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
    "source": "sugra_crypto",
    "attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
    "fallback_chain": [
      "sugra_crypto",
      "sugra_finance"
    ]
  }
}

Changes

Changed in 2 of the 21 revisions of this API.412

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  the response property data/count became optional for the status 200
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  response property data/count list-of-types was widened by adding types null and number to media type application/json of response 200
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  response property data/summaries list-of-types was widened by adding types null to media type application/json of response 200
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This revision also has 15 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
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  added the optional property code to the response with the 401 status
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  added the optional property code to the response with the 503 status
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  added the optional property hint to the response with the 401 status
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  added the optional property hint to the response with the 429 status
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  added the optional property hint to the response with the 503 status
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  added the optional property plan to the response with the 401 status
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  added the optional property plan to the response with the 429 status
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  added the optional property plan to the response with the 503 status
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  added the optional property reason to the response with the 401 status
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  added the optional property reason to the response with the 429 status
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  added the optional property reason to the response with the 503 status
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