Data Collection

ballotwatch.io

Provides tools to query U.S. Congress data including members, votes, bills, and representatives.

1 endpoint9 known toolsFirst detected October 10, 2026Last detected October 10, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: ballotwatch
Version: 1.0.0

Capabilities

tools.listChanged

Server instructions

BallotWatch serves the U.S. congressional record: members, roll-call votes, bills, and the House weekly floor schedule, sourced from Congress.gov, the House Clerk, and the Senate. Every result includes a canonical BallotWatch URL and an official source_url; cite both. Results are the record as ingested (see data_updated_at), not analysis. Roll-call "result_derived" is computed from the tally and question. Bill ids look like 119-hr-1.

Known tools 9

find_representatives

Resolve a U.S.

Inferred read-only

get_member

A member of Congress by Bioguide ID: seat, party, terms, vote statistics, and latest votes.

Inferred read-only

get_member_votes

Recorded votes for a member, newest first, with the question, bill, position, and official source.

Inferred read-only

get_roll_call

One roll-call vote with the tally, party split, derived result, and how every member voted.

Inferred read-only

search_bills

Search bills by title keyword or bill number (e.g.

Inferred read-only

get_bill

A bill with sponsor, stage, official CRS summary, and every recorded floor vote.

Inferred read-only

explain_bill

The cached plain-English explanation of a bill, grounded in the official CRS summary.

Inferred read-only

get_floor_schedule

What the House may take up this week and next (or the week containing a given date), read live from the Majority Leader's schedule on docs.house.gov: each item's label, title, procedure, and bill page.

Inferred read-only

get_member_record

A member's record in 60 seconds: seat, serving since, roll calls and votes cast / not voting this Congress, and the ten most recent votes with position and a link to each roll call.

Inferred read-only

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ballotwatch]
url = "https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ballotwatch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: ballotwatch
Remote MCP URL: https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ballotwatch": {
      "url": "https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "ballotwatch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "ballotwatch",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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Checking the associated registrable domain. The BuiltWith key remains server-side.

Indexed

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