Members

Get a member

GET/v1/members/{bioguideId}All plans

One member: party, state, district, every term served and current committee seats.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/members/H001072" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "bioguideId": "H001072",
  "name": "J. French Hill",
  "firstName": "J.",
  "lastName": "Hill",
  "party": "Republican",
  "state": "AR",
  "district": 2,
  "inOffice": true,
  "terms": [
    {
      "chamber": "House",
      "state": "AR",
      "district": 2,
      "congress": 119,
      "party": "Republican",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03",
      "endDate": null,
      "senateClass": null
    },
    {
      "chamber": "House",
      "state": "AR",
      "district": 2,
      "congress": 118,
      "party": "Republican",
      "startDate": "2023-01-03",
      "endDate": "2025-12-31",
      "senateClass": null
    },
    {
      "chamber": "House",
      "state": "AR",
      "district": 2,
      "congress": 117,
      "party": "Republican",
      "startDate": "2021-01-03",
      "endDate": "2023-12-31",
      "senateClass": null
    }
  ],
  "committees": [
    {
      "committeeCode": "hlig00",
      "name": "Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee",
      "role": "Member",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03",
      "endDate": null
    },
    {
      "committeeCode": "hlig02",
      "name": "National Security Agency and Cyber Subcommittee",
      "role": "Member",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03",
      "endDate": null
    },
    {
      "committeeCode": "hlig06",
      "name": "National Intelligence Enterprise Subcommittee",
      "role": "Member",
      "startDate": "2025-01-03",
      "endDate": null
    }
  ]
}

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

Path parameters

Name	Description
bioguideIdrequiredstring	The member's bioguide id, e.g. B001236.

Response

Field	Description
bioguideIdstring
namestring
firstNamestring
lastNamestring
partystring \| null
statestring \| null
districtinteger \| null
inOfficeboolean
termsMemberTerm[]
terms[].chamberstring
terms[].statestring
terms[].districtinteger \| null
terms[].congressinteger \| null
terms[].partystring \| null
terms[].startDatestring
terms[].endDatestring \| null
terms[].senateClassinteger \| null
committeesobject[]
committees[].committeeCodestring
committees[].namestring \| null
committees[].rolestring \| null
committees[].startDatestring
committees[].endDatestring \| null