# gov.congress-hearing

US Congressional hearings (Congress.gov). Pass congress+chamber+jacketNumber for single hearing; otherwise list by congress+chamber with optional date range.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `gov.congress-hearing`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-2s-io-mcp/gov.congress-hearing

## Facts

- Tool: `gov.congress-hearing`
- Server: Mcp (`@2sio/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-2s-io-mcp.md
- Install: `npx -y @2sio/mcp`
- Homepage: https://github.com/2s-io/sdk
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade F, identity unverified
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 0
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "gov.congress-hearing",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Why gov.congress-hearing is rated Low

The tool retrieves publicly available Congressional hearing data from Congress.gov. It supports querying by congress, chamber, and jacket number, or listing by congress and chamber with optional date filtering. All operations are read-only queries that retrieve information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any side effects.

From the tool's own definition: "Tool description states 'US Congressional hearings (Congress.gov)' with operations to 'Pass congress+chamber+jacketNumber for single hearing; otherwise list by congress+chamber with optional date range.' These are query/retrieval operations with no…"

## Use case

AI agents call gov.congress-hearing to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Mcp:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "gov.congress-hearing": {}
  }
}
```

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