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

5 rows where is_current = 1, party = "Republican" and state = "VA" 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
C001118 Ben Cline Ben Cline   Republican VA House 6 2019-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00042296 ["H8VA06104"] 412832   50959   Ben Cline Ben Cline 1972-02-29 M 5   0 271 51 3087 1815038
G000568 H. Griffith H. Morgan Griffith   Republican VA House 9 2011-01-05 2027-01-03 1 N00032029 ["H0VA09055"] 412485 02070 5148   Morgan Griffith Morgan Griffith 1958-03-15 M 9   0 413 194 8430 5301820
K000399 Jennifer Kiggans Jennifer A. Kiggans   Republican VA House 2 2023-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00048315 ["H2VA02064"] 456947   186387   Jen Kiggans   1971-06-18 F 3   0 104 68 1686 14255488
M001239 John McGuire John J. McGuire III   Republican VA House 5 2025-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00045930 ["H2VA07196", "H0VA07133"] 457026       John McGuire (Virginia politician)   1968-08-24 M 2   0 30 16 445 5459078
W000804 Robert Wittman Robert J. Wittman   Republican VA House 1 2007-12-13 2027-01-03 1 N00029459 ["H8VA01147"] 412255 01886 58133   Rob Wittman Robert J. Wittman 1959-02-03 M 11   279 708 193 10800 5938704

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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);