@pipeworx/committee-releases

Documents congressional committees publish on their own websites — press releases, oversight letters, staff reports, released interview transcripts and investigation files. Keyless.

Tools

• search_committee_documents(...) — find documents by headline across seven committees, filtered by committee, doc_type and (where dates exist) since.
• get_committee_document(...) — a document page's headline, publication date, published text and attached PDFs with URLs and sizes.
• list_committee_document_types(...) — which committees are covered and what each publishes.

Auth

None.

Why this exists

congressional-documents covers GovInfo — the official printed record, which lags the event by months and never receives the ad-hoc material a committee posts to its own site. This covers that gap, within hours of publication.

Committees covered

Committee	Chamber	Shape	Dates
house-oversight	House	typed	yes
hsgac	Senate	typed	yes
senate-commerce	Senate	typed	yes
senate-judiciary	Senate	flat	no
senate-foreign-relations	Senate	flat	no
senate-help	Senate	flat	no
senate-aging	Senate	flat	no

~40,600 documents indexed. All 30 major House and Senate committees were surveyed on 2026-07-30: most House committees publish no sitemap at all, so they cannot be added without a new adapter.

flat committees publish a sitemap with no dates. Their results carry last_updated: null, sort alphabetically rather than by recency, and refuse since instead of applying it to undated rows — which would return pre-cutoff documents as though they had passed the filter. The response says so via dates_unavailable.

Not every committee publishes every type. A doc_type a committee does not publish returns an explicit unavailable_types and a note, never an empty list that would read as "nothing on the subject".

Coverage and limits

• Search matches the document headline/slug, not body or PDF text. Searching 40,000 pages of body text needs a hosted index. A null result means no headline matched — not that the subject is absent.
• PDF text is not extracted. Attachments come back as url + filename + bytes. Quote the page text and cite the attachment as a link; do not represent a PDF as having been read.
• Some pages are pure file wrappers with no prose of their own; those return empty text plus a no_prose_note rather than the site footer.
• get_committee_document fetches a caller-supplied URL, so it is host-allowlisted to the seven committee domains.

A deliberate omission

No person→mentions tool, for the reasons set out in congressional-documents: a name is not an identifier, and being named in a committee document is not an allegation.

Data sources

Each committee's Yoast sitemap index or sitemap.xml, e.g.:

• https://oversight.house.gov/sitemap_index.xml
• https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/sitemap_index.xml
• https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/sitemap.xml

All are served under a robots.txt with an empty Disallow: — crawling explicitly permitted.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "committee-releases": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/committee-releases/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1394+ data sources:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Committee Releases data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• All tools and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT