committee_info

Get metadata and membership for a single U.S. Congressional Committee.

Fetches the committee detail (type, website, subcommittees, activity counts) and current member roster with party affiliations and leadership titles.

Select a chamber, committee, and optional subcommittee to view details.

Examples

from openbb import obb
obb.uscongress.committee_info(chamber='senate', committee='ssaf00')
obb.uscongress.committee_info(chamber='house', committee='hsju00')
# Get info for a subcommittee.
obb.uscongress.committee_info(chamber='senate', committee='ssga00', subcommittee='ssga22')

Parameters

• standard
• congress_gov

chamber: Literal['house', 'senate', 'joint'] | None
Default: senate
Chamber: house, senate, or joint.

committee: str | None
Default: ssaf00
System code of the committee (e.g., ssaf00, hsju00).

subcommittee: str | None
System code of a subcommittee (e.g., ssga22). Leave empty for parent committee.

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Returns

results: CongressCommitteeInfo

Serializable results.

provider: Optional[Literal['congress_gov']]

Provider name.

warnings: Optional[list[Warning_]]

list of warnings.

chart: Optional[Chart]

Chart object.

extra: dict[str, Any]

Extra info.

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Data

• standard
• congress_gov

markdown_content: str
Committee metadata and membership formatted as Markdown.

raw_data: dict[str, Any]
Raw JSON data from the committee detail and member lookups.