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Fetch United States Congressional Records (1995-Present)

v1.0.2 · Oct 6, 2025 · GPL-3

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Fetch United States Congressional Records from their API <https://api.govinfo.gov/docs/> such as congressional speeches, speaker names, and metadata about congressional sessions, and detailed granule records. Optional parameters allow users to specify congressional sessions, and the maximum number of speeches to retrieve. Data is parsed, cleaned, and returned in a structured dataframe for analysis.

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new 1.0.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.0 diff Oct 5, 2025
new 1.0.0 May 11, 2025