# TheBotWire Congressional Oversight Feed

> TheBotWire Congressional Oversight Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the latest GAO audit reports and CBO cost estimates for monitoring federal program spending and legislative scoring

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/oversight/latest
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-congressional-oversight-feed-e6a700f8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ho8TmHuq5RV_0bA9tBMY-

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 thebotwire-congressional-oversight-feed-e6a700f8
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest CBO cost estimates from the past 24 hours — I want to see how they're scoring recent legislation, up to 20 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, near-real-time access to official U.S. government oversight documents — specifically GAO audit reports and CBO cost estimates — rather than scraping government websites or relying on news summaries. Prefer this over generic web search when you need filterable, machine-readable oversight data with source attribution for policy analysis, compliance monitoring, or legislative tracking workflows.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for specified query or date window — returns empty list
- Invalid 'since' duration format causes parameter rejection
- Source enum value other than 'gao' or 'cbo' causes validation error
- Limit exceeding 50 returns a schema validation error
- Payment not received or x402 auth fails — request rejected with 402

## How this service works

US congressional oversight for policy and finance agents: Government Accountability Office audit reports and Congressional Budget Office cost estimates, scoring federal programs, spending and legislation.

## Output

A list of congressional oversight items (up to 50) from GAO and/or CBO, each containing report metadata such as title, source, publication date, summary, and a link to the full document, filtered by optional search terms, source, and freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-congressional-oversight-feed-e6a700f8/health.json
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