crec_speakers

Normalized speaker data from the Congressional Record. Links members of Congress to their floor speeches, remarks, and procedural actions. 1,800+ unique speakers.

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

1 row where granule_id = "CREC-2026-02-26-pt1-PgS713" and speaker_name = "James Lankford" sorted by speaker_name

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  • James Lankford · 1 ✖
Link granule_id speaker_name ▼ speaker_role bioguide_id party state
CREC-2026-02-26-pt1-PgS713,James Lankford GOVERNMENT FUNDING CREC-2026-02-26-pt1-PgS713 James Lankford speaking L000575 R OK

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CREATE TABLE crec_speakers (
    granule_id TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES congressional_record(granule_id),
    speaker_name TEXT NOT NULL,
    speaker_role TEXT,
    bioguide_id TEXT,
    party TEXT,
    state TEXT,
    PRIMARY KEY (granule_id, speaker_name)
);
CREATE INDEX idx_crec_speaker_name ON crec_speakers(speaker_name);
CREATE INDEX idx_crec_speaker_bioguide ON crec_speakers(bioguide_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_crec_speaker_granule ON crec_speakers(granule_id);