# govinfo_legislation_relationships

Return a paginated related-measure map for one bill from official GovInfo Bill Status XML, including companion, identical, related, and procedurally related measures, who identified each relationship, and the related measure's latest published action. Use this for 'find the Senate companion to this House bill', 'which rule resolution governed this bill?', or 'map CRS-identified related measures'. Coverage starts from 118th-Congress HR/S bills; related targets may be resolution types that are not otherwise hosted as primary records.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `govinfo_legislation_relationships`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-blackboxfoundry-livedatalink/govinfo-legislation-relationships

## Facts

- Tool: `govinfo_legislation_relationships`
- Server: Livedatalink (`https://livedatalink.ai/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-blackboxfoundry-livedatalink.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/blackboxfoundry/livedatalink
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade F, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server CORS policy: *
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 5 (2 required)
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | integer | no | Maximum relationship records. Default 25. |
| `offset` | integer | no | Relationship records to skip. Default 0. |
| `bill_type` | string | yes | Hosted measure type: HR for a House bill or S for a Senate bill. Resolutions are outside this v1 snapshot. |
| `bill_number` | integer | yes | Numeric bill number within the fixed 118th Congress. |
| `response_format` | string | no | Human-readable markdown or machine-readable JSON. Default markdown. |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

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

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "govinfo_legislation_relationships",
    "arguments": {
      "bill_type": "<bill_type>",
      "bill_number": 0
    }
  }
}
```

## Why govinfo_legislation_relationships is rated Low

Even though govinfo_legislation_relationships only reads data, uncontrolled read access leaks sensitive information and racks up API costs: an agent caught in a retry loop can make thousands of calls a minute without anyone noticing.

## Use case

AI agents call govinfo_legislation_relationships 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.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

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

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "govinfo_legislation_relationships": {}
  }
}
```

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