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GET/v1/searchData + AnalysisCounts as 10 requests

Ask in plain English ("protections for gig workers", "wildfire funding for western states") and get the bills that address it, each with the passage that matched, even when the bill never uses your words.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/search?q=wildfire+prevention+funding&congress=119&limit=2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "query": "wildfire prevention funding",
  "data": [
    {
      "bill": {
        "billId": "119-sres-559",
        "congress": 119,
        "type": "SRES",
        "number": 559,
        "title": "A resolution recognizing that climate change is making wildfires more frequent, more intense, and more destructive.",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
        "introducedDate": "2025-12-17",
        "latestAction": {
          "date": "2025-12-17",
          "text": "Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs."
        },
        "policyArea": "Environmental Protection",
        "sponsor": {
          "bioguideId": "W000802",
          "name": "Sheldon Whitehouse",
          "party": "Democratic",
          "state": "RI",
          "district": null
        },
        "publicLaws": [],
        "updateDate": "2026-01-06T18:30:20.000Z",
        "webUrl": "https://thelobbynews.com/congress/bills/119/senate-resolution/559"
      },
      "score": 0.032787,
      "matchedBy": [
        "words"
      ],
      "passage": {
        "sectionPath": "s-~7",
        "sectionNumber": null,
        "text": "That the Senate acknowledges the reality of climate change-driven wildfire risk and acknowledges the need to fully fund and staff Federal wildfire prevention and response activities."
      }
    },
    {
      "bill": {
        "billId": "119-hr-9783",
        "congress": 119,
        "type": "HR",
        "number": 9783,
        "title": "CANADA FIRE Act",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "introducedDate": "2026-07-20",
        "latestAction": {
          "date": "2026-07-20",
          "text": "Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideratio…"
        },
        "policyArea": "International Affairs",
        "sponsor": {
          "bioguideId": "J000307",
          "name": "John James",
          "party": "Republican",
          "state": "MI",
          "district": 10
        },
        "publicLaws": [],
        "updateDate": "2026-08-24T17:32:39.000Z",
        "webUrl": "https://thelobbynews.com/congress/bills/119/house-bill/9783"
      },
      "score": 0.032258,
      "matchedBy": [
        "words"
      ],
      "passage": {
        "sectionPath": "s-13",
        "sectionNumber": "13.",
        "text": "13. Presidential certification and termination of sanctions — (a) Certification — The President may terminate the sanctions imposed under this Act if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees a certification that— (1) no material transboundary smoke event…"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Illustrative: built from real bills whose text matches the question. Live search also ranks by meaning.

Query parameters

Name	Description
qrequiredstring	What to find, in plain English, 3 to 500 characters
congressinteger	e.g. 119
typestring	hr, s, hjres, sjres, hres, sres, hconres or sconreshr · s · hjres · sjres · hres · sres · hconres · sconres
chamberstring	House or SenateHouse · Senate
limitinteger	Results, 1 to 50 (default 20)

Response

Field	Description
querystring
dataSearchResult[]
data[].billBillSummary
data[].scorenumber	Relative relevance within this result set; higher is better.
data[].matchedBy"meaning" \| "words" \| "title"[]	Which searches found it: by meaning, by the words in its text, or by its title and number.
data[].passageobject \| null