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

9 rows where party = "Democrat" and state = "VT" 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
B001318 Becca Balint Becca Balint   Democrat VT House 0 2023-01-03 2027-01-03 1 N00049900 ["H2VT01076"] 456948   154056   Becca Balint Becca Balint 1968-05-04 F 3   0 83 40 1686 2327534
F000201 Isaac Fletcher Isaac Fletcher   Democrat VT House 5 1837-09-04 1841-03-03 0   [] 404156       Isaac Fletcher (American politician)   1784-11-22 M 3 1841-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
S000565 John Smith John Smith   Democrat VT House 4 1839-12-02 1841-03-03 0   [] 410049       John Smith (Vermont politician)   1789-08-12 M 2 1841-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
P000178 Lucius Peck Lucius Peck   Democrat VT House 4 1847-12-06 1851-03-03 0   [] 408582       Lucius Benedict Peck   1802-11-17 M 3 1851-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
L000174 Patrick Leahy Patrick J. Leahy   Democrat VT Senate   1975-01-14 2023-01-03 0 N00009918 ["S4VT00017"] 300065 01383 53353 S057 Patrick Leahy Patrick Leahy 1940-03-31 M 9 2023-01-03 0 6941 409 7891 3108938
D000346 Paul Dillingham Paul Dillingham   Democrat VT House 4 1843-12-04 1847-03-03 0   [] 403464       Paul Dillingham   1799-08-10 M 3 1847-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
W000800 Peter Welch Peter Welch   Democrat VT Senate   2007-01-04 2029-01-03 1 N00000515 ["H6VT00160", "H8VT00034", "S2VT00235"] 412239 01879 51272 S422 Peter Welch Peter Welch 1947-05-02 M 4   167 1025 436 11595 4873070
B000209 Thomas Bartlett Thomas Bartlett   Democrat VT House 4 1851-12-01 1853-03-03 0   [] 401207       Thomas Bartlett Jr.   1808-06-18 M 2 1853-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
M000682 William Meyer William Meyer   Democrat VT House 0 1959-01-07 1961-01-03 0   [] 407667       William H. Meyer   1914-12-29 M 2 1961-01-03 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);