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 state = "VI" sorted by full_name

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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
C000380 Donna Christensen Donna M. Christensen   Democrat VI House 0 1997-01-07 2015-01-03 0 N00000133 ["H4VI00054"] 400073 01474 1032   Donna Christensen Donna Christensen 1945-09-19 F 10 2015-01-03 0 946 113 792 511777
E000254 Melvin Evans Melvin Evans   Republican VI House 0 1979-01-15 1981-01-03 0   [] 403936 00362     Melvin H. Evans   1917-08-07 M 2 1981-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
D000209 Ron de Lugo Ron de Lugo   Democrat VI House 0 1973-01-03 1995-01-03 0   [] 403314 00275     Ron de Lugo   1930-08-02 M 12 1995-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
P000610 Stacey Plaskett Stacey E. Plaskett   Democrat VI House 0 2015-01-06 2027-01-03 1 N00035000 ["H2VI00082"] 412659 02274 155929   Stacey Plaskett Stacey Plaskett 1966-05-13 F 7   0 309 122 905 1628879
F000351 Victor Frazer Victor Frazer   Independent VI House 0 1995-01-04 1997-01-03 0   [] 404298 00412     Victor O. Frazer   1943-05-24 M 2 1997-01-03 0 23 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);