Committees

Get a committee

GET/v1/committees/{committeeCode}All plans

One committee, its subcommittees and its current members.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/committees/hsvr00" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "committeeCode": "hsvr00",
  "name": "Veterans' Affairs Committee",
  "chamber": "House",
  "type": "Standing",
  "parentCommitteeCode": null,
  "isCurrent": true,
  "jurisdiction": null,
  "subcommittees": [
    {
      "committeeCode": "hsvr01",
      "name": "Compensation, Pension and Insurance Subcommittee"
    },
    {
      "committeeCode": "hsvr02",
      "name": "Education, Training and Employment Subcommittee"
    },
    {
      "committeeCode": "hsvr03",
      "name": "Health Subcommittee"
    }
  ],
  "members": [
    {
      "member": {
        "bioguideId": "B001295",
        "name": "Mike Bost",
        "party": "Republican",
        "state": "IL",
        "district": 12
      },
      "role": "Chair",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03"
    },
    {
      "member": {
        "bioguideId": "B001285",
        "name": "Julia Brownley",
        "party": "Democratic",
        "state": "CA",
        "district": 26
      },
      "role": "Member",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03"
    },
    {
      "member": {
        "bioguideId": "B001301",
        "name": "Jack Bergman",
        "party": "Republican",
        "state": "MI",
        "district": 1
      },
      "role": "Member",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03"
    }
  ]
}

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

Path parameters

Name	Description
committeeCoderequiredstring	The Congress.gov committee code, e.g. hsju00.

Response

Field	Description
committeeCodestring
namestring
chamberstring
typestring \| null
parentCommitteeCodestring \| null
isCurrentboolean
jurisdictionstring \| null
subcommitteesobject[]
subcommittees[].committeeCodestring
subcommittees[].namestring
membersobject[]
members[].memberMemberRef
members[].rolestring \| null
members[].startDatestring