Bills

Bill actions

GET/v1/bills/{billId}/actionsAll plans

Every step a bill has taken, newest first, as Congress.gov records it, up to 100 a page. Use it for activity feeds and alerts when a bill you follow moves.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/bills/119-hr-6644/actions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "data": [
    {
      "seq": 68,
      "date": "2026-07-11",
      "code": "E40000",
      "text": "Became Public Law No: 119-101.",
      "chamber": "President"
    },
    {
      "seq": 67,
      "date": "2026-07-11",
      "code": "36000",
      "text": "Became Public Law No: 119-101.",
      "chamber": "BecameLaw"
    },
    {
      "seq": 66,
      "date": "2026-07-11",
      "code": "E30000",
      "text": "Sent to Archivist of the United States unsigned.",
      "chamber": "President"
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": null
}

A real response, trimmed for length: lists cut to three items, long text shortened.

Path parameters

Name	Description
billIdrequiredstring	Congress, type and number, e.g. 119-hr-1234.

Query parameters

Name	Description
cursorstring	nextCursor from the previous page
limitinteger	Page size, 1 to 100 (default 100)

Response

Field	Description
billIdstring
dataBillAction[]
data[].seqinteger	Oldest action is 1. Same-day actions keep their order.
data[].datestring
data[].codestring \| null
data[].textstring
data[].chamberstring \| null
nextCursorstring \| null	Pass as `cursor` for the next page; null on the last page.