# x402-data-bazaar Congressional Bills

> x402-data-bazaar Congressional Bills is a paid API for AI agents from x402-data-bazaar.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns recent US Congressional bills with title, latest action, origin chamber, and update date from Congress.gov

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-data-bazaar.vercel.app/api/congress/bills
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-data-bazaar-vercel-app-c44d5cb4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ilIdGARsIwDvuk6uvL-oE

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 x402-data-bazaar-vercel-app-c44d5cb4
```

Example prompt: Show me the 20 most recent bills from the 119th Congress — I want the title, bill type, number, and latest action for each.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, up-to-date data on recent US Congressional bills directly from Congress.gov, especially when you want to filter by congress number or keyword-search bill titles. It's ideal for policy research, legislative monitoring, or building summaries of recent congressional activity.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid congress number returns empty or error response
- Limit parameter exceeds allowed maximum causing truncated results
- Query keyword with no matching bills returns empty bills array
- Network or upstream Congress.gov API outage causes failure
- Malformed query string parameters may return unexpected results

## How this service works

Recent Congressional bills -- title, latest action, origin chamber, update date. Optional ?congress=119&limit=20. From Congress.gov.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with an array of bills (each with type, title, and number), total count, and congress number, plus a source attribution to Congress.gov and a success flag.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Maximum results to return"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional search keyword"
  },
  "congress": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Congress number, e.g. 119"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "data": {
  "bills": [
   {
    "type": "HR",
    "title": "Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency Act",
    "number": "144"
   },
   {
    "type": "HR",
    "title": "Protecting our Communities from Sexual Predators Act",
    "number": "134"
   }
  ],
  "count": 2,
  "congress": 119
 },
 "source": "Congress.gov API",
 "success": true
}
```

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