# Citiview Congress Bills Search & Lookup

> Citiview Congress Bills Search & Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from agents.citiviewgroup.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Search US Congress bill text by keywords or retrieve detailed bill metadata (title, sponsor, cosponsors, policy area, and actions) by bill ID.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.citiviewgroup.com/v1/congress?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-congress-bills-search-lookup-12942b0c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Pk82CkDfCge4tET0M7Azx

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability citiview-congress-bills-search-lookup-12942b0c
```

Example prompt: Can you look up bill hr1-119 and tell me its title, who sponsored it, its cosponsors, the policy area it falls under, and what the latest action was?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, structured data about US federal legislation — either to search bill text by keyword via GovInfo or to retrieve official metadata (sponsors, cosponsors, policy area, actions) for a known bill ID via Congress.gov. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, machine-readable legislative data rather than news articles or commentary about bills.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid bill ID format returns an error or empty result
- Keywords with no matching bills return an empty list
- Congress.gov or GovInfo API downtime causes upstream errors
- Bill IDs from sessions other than the 119th Congress may not be supported
- Misspelled bill IDs (e.g. 'hr01-119' vs 'hr1-119') may return no results

## How this service works

US Congress bills: search bill text by keywords (GovInfo), or pass a bill id such as hr1-119 for its title, sponsor, cosponsors, policy area, latest action and recent actions (Congress.gov).

## Output

For keyword searches: a list of matching bills with bill IDs and text excerpts from GovInfo. For bill ID lookups: structured metadata including the bill's title, primary sponsor, list of cosponsors, policy area classification, the latest action taken, and a list of recent actions from Congress.gov.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Keywords"
      },
      "bill": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "e.g. hr1-119 or s50-119"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-congress-bills-search-lookup-12942b0c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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