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 federal cross-reference IDs (FEC, Library of Congress THOMAS/LIS).

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

2 rows where is_current = 1, party = "Democrat" and state = "LA" sorted by full_name

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state 1

party 1

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is_current 1

chamber 1

bioguide_id first_name last_name full_name ▼ nickname party state chamber district first_served last_served is_current fec_ids thomas_id lis_id birthday gender terms_count served_until trade_count speech_count bills_sponsored vote_count fec_total_received fec_ie_for fec_ie_against
F000110 Cleo Fields Cleo Fields   Democrat LA House 6 1993-01-05 2027-01-03 1 ["H4LA06211"] 00379   1962-11-22 M 18   232 106 17 645 294882 300827 0
C001125 Troy Carter Troy A. Carter   Democrat LA House 2 2021-05-11 2027-01-03 1 ["H2LA02149"]     1963-10-26 M 4   0 211 70 2751 2906743 27427 1011739

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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,
    fec_ids TEXT,
    thomas_id TEXT,
    lis_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, fec_ie_for INTEGER DEFAULT 0, fec_ie_against 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);