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

3 rows where is_current = 1, party = "Republican" and state = "NJ" 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 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
S000522 Christopher Smith Christopher H. Smith Chris Republican NJ House 4 1981-01-05 2027-01-03 1 N00009816 ["H8NJ04014"] 400380 01071 26952   Chris Smith (New Jersey politician) Chris Smith (New Jersey) 1953-03-04 M 24   0 2073 789 14314 3070105
V000133 Jefferson Van Drew Jefferson Van Drew   Republican NJ House 2 2019-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00042164 ["H8NJ02166"] 412796   24685   Jeff Van Drew Jeff Van Drew 1953-02-23 M 5   0 465 159 3087 11156295
K000398 Thomas Kean Thomas H. Kean, Jr.   Republican NJ House 7 2023-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00027502 ["H0NJ07261"] 456917   43250   Thomas Kean Jr. Thomas Kean Jr. 1968-09-05 M 3   135 108 50 1686 11370522

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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);