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

13 rows where chamber = "Senate", party = "Democrat" and state = "PA" sorted by full_name

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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
S000709 Arlen Specter Arlen Specter   Democrat PA Senate   1981-01-05 2011-01-03 0 N00001604 ["S6PA00100"] 300092 01437 53340 S161 Arlen Specter   1930-02-12 M 6 2011-01-03 0 2725 893 3978 2492417
S001046 Daniel Sturgeon Daniel Sturgeon   Democrat PA Senate   1840-01-01 1851-03-03 0   [] 410500       Daniel Sturgeon   1789-10-27 M 2 1851-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
M001127 Francis Myers Francis Myers   Democrat PA Senate   1939-01-03 1951-01-03 0   [] 408089       Francis J. Myers   1901-12-18 M 3 1951-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
W000665 Harris Wofford Harris Wofford   Democrat PA Senate   1991-05-08 1995-01-03 0   [] 411818 01457   S219 Harris Wofford   1926-04-09 M 1 1995-01-03 0 31 81 0 0
B001005 James Buchanan James Buchanan   Democrat PA Senate   1821-12-03 1845-12-31 0   [] 401954       James Buchanan James Buchanan (U.S. president) 1791-04-23 M 5 1845-12-31 0 0 0 0 0
F000479 John Fetterman John Fetterman   Democrat PA Senate   2023-01-03 2029-01-03 1 N00038201 ["S6PA00274"] 456877   166286 S418 John Fetterman John Fetterman 1969-08-15 M 2   69 15 59 1396 122801073
C000444 Joseph Clark Joseph Clark   Democrat PA Senate   1957-01-03 1969-01-03 0   [] 402582       Joseph S. Clark Jr.   1901-10-21 M 3 1969-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
G000519 Joseph Guffey Joseph Guffey   Democrat PA Senate   1935-01-03 1947-01-03 0   [] 404864       Joseph F. Guffey   1870-12-29 M 3 1947-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000861 Richard Brodhead Richard Brodhead   Democrat PA Senate   1843-12-04 1857-03-03 0   [] 401818       Richard Brodhead   1811-01-05 M 3 1857-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
C001070 Robert Casey Robert P. Casey, Jr. Bob Democrat PA Senate   2007-01-04 2025-01-03 0 N00027503 ["S6PA00217"] 412246 01828 2541 S309 Bob Casey Jr. Bob Casey, Jr. 1960-04-13 M 4 2025-01-03 1 1590 1020 5957 144971259
M000492 Samuel McKean Samuel McKean   Democrat PA Senate   1823-12-01 1839-03-03 0   [] 407487       Samuel McKean   1787-04-07 M 3 1839-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000459 William Bigler William Bigler   Democrat PA Senate   1856-01-01 1861-03-03 0   [] 401444       William Bigler   1814-01-01 M 1 1861-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
W000084 William Wallace William Wallace   Democrat PA Senate   1875-12-06 1881-03-03 0   [] 411263       William A. Wallace   1827-11-28 M 2 1881-03-03 0 0 0 0 0

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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);