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

10 rows where chamber = "Senate", party = "Democrat" and state = "IA" sorted by full_name

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Suggested facets: first_name, nickname, first_served, opensecrets_id, fec_ids, thomas_id, ballotpedia_id, terms_count, speech_count, bills_sponsored, vote_count, fec_total_received, first_served (date), last_served (date), birthday (date), served_until (date), fec_ids (array)

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party 1

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is_current 1

  • 0 10

chamber 1

  • Senate · 10 ✖
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
D000394 Augustus Dodge Augustus Dodge   Democrat IA Senate   1840-12-28 1855-02-22 0   [] 403509       Augustus C. Dodge   1812-01-02 M 3 1855-02-22 0 0 0 0 0
H000543 Clyde Herring Clyde Herring   Democrat IA Senate   1937-01-05 1943-01-03 0   [] 405405       Clyde L. Herring   1879-05-03 M 2 1943-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
S000826 Daniel Steck Daniel Steck   Democrat IA Senate   1926-04-12 1931-03-03 0   [] 410290       Daniel F. Steck   1881-12-16 M 1 1931-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
J000221 George Jones George Jones   Democrat IA Senate   1835-12-07 1859-03-03 0   [] 406115       George Wallace Jones   1804-04-12 M 5 1859-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
G000205 Guy Gillette Guy Gillette   Democrat IA Senate   1933-03-09 1955-01-03 0   [] 404569       Guy Gillette   1879-02-03 M 4 1955-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
H000922 Harold Hughes Harold Hughes   Democrat IA Senate   1969-01-03 1975-01-03 0   [] 405767 01364     Harold Hughes   1922-02-10 M 2 1975-01-03 0 0 12 0 0
C000979 John Culver John Culver   Democrat IA Senate   1965-01-04 1981-01-03 0   [] 403090 00255     John Culver   1932-08-08 M 3 1981-01-03 0 0 109 0 0
C000448 Richard Clark Richard Clark Dick Democrat IA Senate   1973-01-03 1979-01-03 0   [] 402586 01306     Dick Clark (Iowa politician)   1928-09-14 M 2 1979-01-03 0 0 69 0 0
M001103 Richard Murphy Richard Murphy   Democrat IA Senate   1933-03-09 1937-01-03 0   [] 408067       Louis Murphy (American politician)   1875-11-06 M 1 1937-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
H000206 Thomas Harkin Tom Harkin Tom Democrat IA Senate   1975-01-14 2015-01-03 0 N00004207 ["S4IA00020", "P20000741"] 300051 00501 53294 S172 Tom Harkin Tom Harkin 1939-11-19 M 7 2015-01-03 0 3371 652 5121 723562

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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);