congress_members

All current and historical members of Congress (12,700+) from the congress-legislators project. Includes bioguide_id (universal key), party, state, chamber, and cross-reference IDs for OpenSecrets, FEC, GovTrack, and more.

Data license: Public Domain (U.S. Government data) · Data source: Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API

6 rows where chamber = "House", is_current = 1 and state = "LA" sorted by full_name

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party 2

state 1

is_current 1

chamber 1

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bioguide_id first_name last_name full_name ▼ nickname party state chamber district first_served last_served is_current opensecrets_id fec_ids govtrack_id thomas_id votesmart_id lis_id wikipedia_id ballotpedia_id birthday gender terms_count served_until trade_count speech_count bills_sponsored vote_count fec_total_received
H001077 Clay Higgins Clay Higgins   Republican LA House 3 2017-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00039953 ["H6LA03148"] 412705   174484   Clay Higgins Clay Higgins 1961-08-24 M 6   0 163 147 4296 1519025
F000110 Cleo Fields Cleo Fields   Democrat LA House 6 1993-01-05 2027-01-03 1 N00005398 ["H4LA06211"] 404067 00379     Cleo Fields   1962-11-22 M 18   219 102 13 445 521209
L000595 Julia Letlow Julia Letlow   Republican LA House 5 2021-04-14 2027-01-03 1 N00047972 ["H2LA05126"] 456859   195745   Julia Letlow Julia Letlow 1981-03-16 F 4   224 45 22 2037 2670299
J000299 Mike Johnson Mike Johnson   Republican LA House 4 2017-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00039106 ["H6LA04138"] 412706   156097   Mike Johnson Mike Johnson (Louisiana) 1972-01-30 M 6   0 182 69 3833 5785704
S001176 Steve Scalise Steve Scalise   Republican LA House 1 2008-05-07 2027-01-03 1 N00009660 ["H0LA01087"] 412261 01892 9026   Steve Scalise Steve Scalise 1965-10-06 M 10   0 601 90 10508 14793290
C001125 Troy Carter Troy A. Carter   Democrat LA House 2 2021-05-11 2027-01-03 1 N00025766 ["H2LA02149"] 456860   35462   Troy Carter (politician) Troy Carter 1963-10-26 M 4   0 201 59 2002 3579409

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CREATE TABLE congress_members (
    bioguide_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
    first_name TEXT,
    last_name TEXT,
    full_name TEXT,
    nickname TEXT,
    party TEXT,
    state TEXT,
    chamber TEXT,
    district INTEGER,
    first_served TEXT,
    last_served TEXT,
    is_current INTEGER,
    opensecrets_id TEXT,
    fec_ids TEXT,
    govtrack_id INTEGER,
    thomas_id TEXT,
    votesmart_id INTEGER,
    lis_id TEXT,
    wikipedia_id TEXT,
    ballotpedia_id TEXT,
    birthday TEXT,
    gender TEXT,
    terms_count INTEGER,
    served_until TEXT
, trade_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0, speech_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0, bills_sponsored INTEGER DEFAULT 0, vote_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0, fec_total_received INTEGER DEFAULT 0);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_name ON congress_members(last_name, first_name);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_party ON congress_members(party);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_state ON congress_members(state);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_chamber ON congress_members(chamber);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_current ON congress_members(is_current);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_current_trades ON congress_members(is_current DESC, trade_count DESC);