Get how a legislator voted on specific bills. Use find_legislator first to get people_id from a name. Returns vote positions (Yea/Nay/NV/Absent) for each bill with roll call details.
AI agents call legiscan_get_legislator_votes to retrieve information from LegiScan MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a simple data retrieval operation that queries historical voting records. It has no side effects, does not modify any state, and cannot be used to alter legislative data or trigger external actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve vote information for many legislators or bills, but this poses no security, financial, or destructive risk.
From the tool's definition Tool returns vote positions and roll call details without modifying, creating, or deleting any legislative data. The description explicitly states it 'Get[s] how a legislator voted' (read operation) and returns information about existing votes.
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Get how a legislator voted on specific bills. Use find_legislator first to get people_id from a name. Returns vote positions (Yea/Nay/NV/Absent) for each bill with roll call details. It is categorised as a Read tool in the LegiScan MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the LegiScan MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for legiscan_get_legislator_votes: 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 LegiScan MCP Server. Nothing to install.
legiscan_get_legislator_votes 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 legiscan_get_legislator_votes 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 legiscan_get_legislator_votes. 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.
legiscan_get_legislator_votes is provided by the LegiScan MCP Server MCP server (sh-patterson/legiscan-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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