Bills

Topic scores

GET/v1/bills/{billId}/topic-scoresData + Analysis

How strongly the bill bears on each of our interest topics, from 0 to 1. Use it to route bills to the people who care about them.

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

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "textVersion": "Enrolled Bill",
  "data": [
    {
      "topic": "banking-financial-regulation",
      "label": "Banking & Financial Regulation",
      "score": 0.6790699622632694,
      "sectionsScored": 26,
      "bestSectionScore": 0.6790699622632694
    },
    {
      "topic": "affordable-housing",
      "label": "Affordable Housing",
      "score": 0.6515732313727678,
      "sectionsScored": 39,
      "bestSectionScore": 0.6515732313727678
    },
    {
      "topic": "rent-control",
      "label": "Rent Control",
      "score": 0.6257392985264181,
      "sectionsScored": 32,
      "bestSectionScore": 0.6257392985264181
    }
  ]
}

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
textVersionstring \| null
dataTopicScore[]
data[].topicstring
data[].labelstring
data[].scorenumber \| null	How strongly the bill text bears on the topic, 0 to 1: the best-scoring passage.
data[].sectionsScoredinteger
data[].bestSectionScorenumber \| null