INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

find_politician

Resolve a politician's name to their id.

congress.cashnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://www.congress.cash/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for find_politician and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.congress-cash]
url = "https://www.congress.cash/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "congress-cash": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.congress.cash/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: congress-cash
Remote MCP URL: https://www.congress.cash/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": {
    "congress-cash": {
      "url": "https://www.congress.cash/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "congress-cash": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.congress.cash/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

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

MCP Inspector

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

get_money_profile — Call this when the user asks who funds a member of Congress, how much they've raised/spent, their top PACs or donors, or outside spending for/against them.
get_trades — Call this for questions about stock trading by members of Congress — a specific member's trades, who's trading a ticker, or trades overlapping committee jurisdiction.
get_holdings — Call this when the user asks what stocks or assets a member of Congress OWNS (as opposed to trades) — parsed from their latest annual financial disclosure.
get_conflicts — Call this for conflict-of-interest questions about a member's FUNDING: which industries their campaign money comes from, with the specific donors/PACs behind each industry and the policy topics that industry cares about.
get_pac — Call this when the user asks about a PAC, super PAC, or political committee — who it funds, party split, outside spending, its registered lobbying, and what it is (authored blurbs for 300+ major PACs).
get_state_legislature — Call this for questions about money in a STATE legislature as a whole — totals, top fundraisers, source of the data.
get_state_legislator — Call this for a specific STATE legislator's campaign finance: totals, donors, and sector breakdown.