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Information Sources

Last updated: October 13, 2026

The 202 is an independent product of Sayfie Media LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any U.S. government agency, Congress, or political party. Official records shown in the app are collected from public sources listed below so you can verify them at the original sites. Where available, records in the app also link back to the originating source.

Official U.S. government sources

These are the primary public sources of government information used by The 202. Prefer the public .gov pages below to verify what you see in the app.

• Congress.gov — bills, nominations, members, committee meetings
  https://www.congress.gov · API https://api.congress.gov
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress — member biographies
  https://bioguide.congress.gov
• Federal Register — rules, proposed rules, notices
  https://www.federalregister.gov · API https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1
• Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) — lobbying registrations and filings
  https://lda.senate.gov · API https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1 · public portal https://lda.senate.gov/system/public/
• Federal Election Commission (FEC) — campaign finance filings and reports
  https://www.fec.gov · OpenFEC API https://api.open.fec.gov/v1 · document query https://docquery.fec.gov
• Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — foreign agent registrations and principals
  https://efile.fara.gov · DOJ FARA page https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara · API https://efile.fara.gov/api/v1
• SAM.gov — federal contract opportunities
  https://sam.gov · API https://api.sam.gov/opportunities/v2/search
• USAspending.gov — federal award spending
  https://www.usaspending.gov · API https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/
• OPM PLUM reporting — executive branch positions
  https://www.opm.gov/about-us/open-government/plum-reporting/plum-data/ · data API https://escs.opm.gov/escs-net/api/pbpub/filter-records
• U.S. Government Manual (GovInfo) — government organization and leadership
  https://www.govinfo.gov · sitemap https://www.govinfo.gov/sitemap/GOVMAN_sitemap_index.xml
• House Statement of Disbursements — House staff / expenditure disclosures
  https://www.house.gov/the-house-explained/open-government/statement-of-disbursements
• Senate Report of the Secretary — Senate staff salary reports
  https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/generic/report_secsen.htm · documents via https://www.govinfo.gov
• House Clerk votes — House roll-call votes
  https://clerk.house.gov
• Senate roll-call votes — Senate LIS vote records
  https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/
• House financial disclosures / STOCK Act — House periodic transaction reports
  https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov
• Senate electronic financial disclosures — Senate eFD filings
  https://efdsearch.senate.gov
• Appropriations disclosures — House Community Project Funding and Senate Congressionally Directed Spending
  https://appropriations.house.gov · https://www.appropriations.senate.gov
• Capitol / floor status — chamber in-session status
  https://clerk.house.gov/FloorSummary · https://www.dailypress.senate.gov/ · House schedule fallback https://www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/weekly-schedule.htm · Senate floor activity fallback https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/floor_activity.htm
• Committee membership and office contacts
  House Clerk member data https://clerk.house.gov/xml/lists/MemberData.xml · Senate contacts https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.xml · Senate committee memberships under https://www.senate.gov/general/committee_membership/
• White House briefings and statements
  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/ · RSS https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/feed/
• National Gallery of Art — exhibitions (cultural calendar)
  https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions
• IRS Form 990 XML extracts — nonprofit officer data (not currently actively refreshed)
  https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml

News outlets

Political and government news items may come from public RSS feeds published by these outlets:

• The Hill — https://thehill.com/feed/ · campaigns https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/feed/
• Politico — https://rss.politico.com/politics-news.xml
• Roll Call — https://www.rollcall.com/feed/
• New York Times Politics — https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Politics.xml
• Washington Post Politics — https://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/politics
• Axios — https://api.axios.com/feed/
• Washington Times — https://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/politics/
• NOTUS — https://www.notus.org/index.rss
• RealClearPolitics — https://www.realclearpolitics.com/index.xml
• The Dispatch — https://thedispatch.com/feed/
• Semafor — https://www.semafor.com/rss.xml
• Washington Examiner — https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/
• Government Executive — https://www.govexec.com/rss/all/
• Federal News Network — https://federalnewsnetwork.com/feed/
• Defense One — https://www.defenseone.com/rss/all/
• NPR Politics — https://feeds.npr.org/1014/rss.xml

Think tanks, associations, and event hosts

“The Circuit” and related event listings may be drawn from publicly posted event calendars, including:

• Hudson Institute
• Peterson Institute for International Economics
• American Enterprise Institute
• Cato Institute
• Center for American Progress
• National Association of Manufacturers
• Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
• Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Atlantic Council
• The Heritage Foundation
• Brookings Institution
• Urban Institute
• Council on Foreign Relations
• New America
• Center for a New American Security
• Aspen Institute
• National Press Club
• R Street Institute
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Axios Events
• Semafor Events

People moves and press announcements

Personnel and firm announcements may come from publicly posted news pages and feeds of lobbying firms, trade associations, and press wires (for example PR Newswire, BusinessWire, O’Dwyer’s, WashingtonExec, and FedScoop), in addition to the White House feed listed above.

Other public datasets and cultural listings

• unitedstates/congress-legislators — open civic dataset used as a member identity crosswalk
  https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-current.json
• Wikidata — member birthday enrichment
  https://query.wikidata.org/sparql
• Ticketmaster Discovery — venue event listings for the cultural calendar
  Ticketmaster Discovery API
• DC cultural venues — publicly posted calendars from institutions such as the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian museums, Arena Stage, Wolf Trap, and similar venues.
• Reporter wire / scoops — public posts via the X (Twitter) API; individual items link to the original post on x.com.

Contact

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