Congressional Data Task Force Recap: March 20, 2026

The Congressional Data Task Force convened March 20, benefiting from a nice venue upgrade inside the Capitol Visitor Center. These quarterly meetings highlight the great collaborative work taking place behind the scenes across legislative branch offices to unlock the enormous amount of information about what Congress is doing and has done in the past. It’s work that levels the playing field for members of Congress, legislative staff, and the public in terms of situational awareness and deeper institutional knowledge, which is why we think it’s so important.

Summaries of previous CDTF meetings can be found on the website using the “Congressional Data Task Force” tag. 

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Congressional Data Task Force Recap: December 12, 2025

The Government Publishing Office grabbed the spotlight at the Congressional Data Task Force meeting on December 13 by announcing that it is launching a Model Context Protocol server for artificial intelligence tools to access official GPO publication information. The MCP server lets AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini pull in official GPO documents when answering questions.

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Presenting Caucus Membership as Data

A key way to understanding the influence and position of different factions within the Democratic Caucus and Republican Conference in the House of Representatives is to study the major ideologically-based caucuses that almost all members join. Tracking caucuses’ members within the institution is hampered, however, by the lack of membership information in data provided by the House. Although most caucuses publish their rosters on their websites, the absence of that information in available structured member biographical data makes using it in congressional research laborious.

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