INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

get_bill

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

ballotwatch.ionone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://www.ballotwatch.io/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for get_bill 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.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.

find_representatives — Resolve a U.S.
get_member — A member of Congress by Bioguide ID: seat, party, terms, vote statistics, and latest votes.
get_member_votes — Recorded votes for a member, newest first, with the question, bill, position, and official source.
get_roll_call — One roll-call vote with the tally, party split, derived result, and how every member voted.
search_bills — Search bills by title keyword or bill number (e.g.
explain_bill — The cached plain-English explanation of a bill, grounded in the official CRS summary.
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.
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.