Bills

CRS summaries

GET/v1/bills/{billId}/crs-summariesAll plans

The Congressional Research Service's nonpartisan summaries of the bill, one for each version they wrote.

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

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "data": [
    {
      "versionCode": "49",
      "date": "2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "text": "<p><strong>21st Century ROAD to Housing Act</strong></p><p>This act establishes and modifies various federal housing programs.<br/><br/>TITLE I--OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING<br/><br/>(Sec. 101) This section requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to review the…"
    },
    {
      "versionCode": "07",
      "date": "2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "text": "<p><strong>Housing for the 21st Century Act<br/><br/></strong>This bill revises federal housing programs, including by expanding available financing for affordable housing and providing grants for planning and community development activities.<br/><br/>For example, the bill incre…"
    }
  ]
}

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.

Response

Field	Description
billIdstring
dataCrsSummary[]
data[].versionCodestring
data[].datestring
data[].textstring \| null	As the Congressional Research Service wrote it, in HTML.