congress_bill_cosponsors
List the cosponsors of one bill with their party and state. Useful for mapping coalitions behind legislation. Requires Congress number, bill type, and bill number.
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What congress_bill_cosponsors does on Livedatalink
AI agents call congress_bill_cosponsors to retrieve information from Livedatalink without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | number | — | Max cosponsors (default 250). |
congress | number | Yes | Congress number. |
bill_type | string | Yes | Bill type code: hr (House Bill), s (Senate Bill), hjres, sjres, hconres, sconres, hres, sres. |
bill_number | number | Yes | Bill number. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why congress_bill_cosponsors is rated Low
This tool queries and retrieves existing public data about congressional bill cosponsors (their party and state). It performs no write, execute, destructive, or financial operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — an agent could retrieve unwanted legislative information but cannot modify records, execute code, or cause financial harm.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List the cosponsors' and 'mapping coalitions behind legislation' — purely informational retrieval of public legislative data with no modification, deletion, or side effects.
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The rule that runs congress_bill_cosponsors safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Livedatalink, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For congress_bill_cosponsors, this is the rule to start with:
congress_bill_cosponsors is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Livedatalink, apply this rule, and every congress_bill_cosponsors call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about congress_bill_cosponsors
List the cosponsors of one bill with their party and state. Useful for mapping coalitions behind legislation. Requires Congress number, bill type, and bill number. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Livedatalink MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
congress_bill_cosponsors accepts 4 parameters: limit, congress, bill_type, bill_number. Required: congress, bill_type, bill_number. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Livedatalink MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for congress_bill_cosponsors: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Livedatalink. Nothing to install.
congress_bill_cosponsors is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the congress_bill_cosponsors rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for congress_bill_cosponsors. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
congress_bill_cosponsors is provided by the Livedatalink MCP server (https://livedatalink.ai/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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