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 = "Republican" and state = "AL" sorted by full_name

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Suggested facets: nickname, first_served, opensecrets_id, fec_ids, thomas_id, ballotpedia_id, gender, terms_count, trade_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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  • 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
S000723 George Spencer George Spencer   Republican AL Senate   1868-01-01 1879-03-03 0   [] 410192       George E. Spencer   1836-11-01 M 2 1879-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
S001141 Jefferson Sessions Jeff Sessions Jeff Republican AL Senate   1997-01-07 2017-02-08 0 N00003062 ["S6AL00195"] 300088 01548 443 S261 Jeff Sessions Jeff Sessions 1946-12-24 M 4 2017-02-08 20 2958 136 5683 1936623
D000259 Jeremiah Denton Jeremiah Denton   Republican AL Senate   1981-01-05 1987-01-03 0   [] 403397 01316     Jeremiah Denton   1924-07-15 M 2 1987-01-03 0 0 85 0 0
W000061 John Walker John Walker   Republican AL Senate   1819-12-06 1823-03-03 0   [] 411240       John Williams Walker   1783-08-12 M 1 1823-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B001319 Katie Britt Katie Boyd Britt   Republican AL Senate   2023-01-03 2029-01-03 1 N00048812 ["S2AL00145"] 456874   201704 S416 Katie Britt Katie Britt 1982-02-02 F 2   26 103 39 1396 16548804
S001202 Luther Strange Luther Strange   Republican AL Senate   2017-02-09 2018-01-03 0 N00040607 ["S8AL00308"] 412734   121424 S392 Luther Strange Luther Strange 1953-03-01 M 1 2018-01-03 0 27 4 265 8074658
S000320 Richard Shelby Richard C. Shelby   Republican AL Senate   1979-01-15 2023-01-03 0 N00009920 ["S6AL00013"] 300089 01049 53266 S184 Richard Shelby Richard Shelby 1934-05-06 M 8 2023-01-03 0 1127 332 7891 4523013
T000278 Tommy Tuberville Tommy Tuberville   Republican AL Senate   2021-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00044434 ["S0AL00230"] 456796   188306 S412 Tommy Tuberville Tommy Tuberville 1954-09-18 M 2   1444 520 71 2345 3180677
W000159 Willard Warner Willard Warner   Republican AL Senate   1868-01-01 1871-03-03 0   [] 411332       Willard Warner   1826-09-04 M 1 1871-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
K000079 William Kelly William Kelly   Republican AL Senate   1822-01-01 1825-03-03 0   [] 406248       William Kelly (Alabama politician)   1786-09-22 M 1 1825-03-03 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);