Tools & Resources
In an effort to enhance accessibility to official U.S. House of Representatives information, the Office of the Clerk provides XML feeds and predictive and persistent links to votes, transcripts, filings, videos, and other legislative and disclosure records wherever possible.
The tools below are provided as a public service. The Office of the Clerk encourages users to submit feedback, report technical issues, and send demonstrations of innovative ways that House information is being used to serve the public to techsupport.clerkweb@mail.house.gov.
Developer Resources from the Office of the Clerk
Video of House Floor Proceedings
Audio and video download, video search API, and video segment embedding. [more]
HouseLive.gov includes a video archive of House Floor proceedings from 2009 to present. Audio and video for each legislative day are available in MP3 and MP4 formats, respectively.
HouseLive.gov features a video search API that enables developers to query any marker or video from the entire video library. More information about the API, including fields and examples, is located at Granicus.com.
Developers may also use the embed post specific segments from proceedings into blogs and websites.
House Proceedings, including any recording of such proceedings, may not be used for any political purpose or in any commercial advertisement, and may not be broadcast with commercial sponsorship except as part of a bona fide news program or public affairs documentary program.
House Floor Proceedings
A summary of House Floor activities in XML format. [more]
A summary of House Floor activities is available in XML format for each legislative day from 2007 to present. Direct links are found on the House Floor summary page or in the Additional Resources dropdown menu in the HouseLive.gov archives for a specific legislative day. The summary includes links to bill-specific information from the Legislative Information System and links to results of roll call votes.
Download the XML for House Floor Proceedings using the following URL structure:
http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/Download.aspx?file=YYYYMMDD.xml
Roll Call Votes
Specific roll call votes in XML format. [more]
Build a link to the results of specific roll call votes in XML format (from 1990 to present) by inserting the relevant year and three-digit roll call number into the following URL structure:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/YYYY/rollXXX.xml
Bills This Week
A weekly list of all legislative text under consideration by the House in XML format. [more]
A weekly list of all legislative text under consideration by the House is available in XML format for each legislative day beginning with the second session of the 112th Congress. Accessing an XML file for a particular week requires that the date in the URL structure be for that respective Monday. Download the XML for a specific week using the following URL structure:
http://docs.house.gov/Download.aspx?file=/billsthisweek/YYYYMMDD/YYYYMMDD.xml
Public Disclosure
Data from public disclosure documents filed with the Clerk of the House in XML format. [more]
Data from several House public disclosure documents filed with the Clerk of the House are available for download in XML format:
Developer Resources from the Legislative Branch
XML.House.Gov
This site features DTDs, schemas, and samples used to create documents that include information on bills,resolutions, amendments, roll call votes, and biographies of Members of the House and Senate.
Legislative Handles from THOMAS
Federal legislative information-including bills, resolutions, public laws, roll call votes, the Congressional Record, schedules, and calendars-is freely available to the public through the THOMAS database maintained by the Library of Congress. Users are able to build persistent URLs to THOMAS documents using predictive legislative handles.
GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys)
FDsys provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
URLs to publications, such as the Congressional Record, are predictive and persistent. Descriptive metadata about publications and documents are available in standard XML format.