Get voting records for a politician by slug. Returns congressional votes with bill info,
AI agents call get_politician_votes to retrieve information from Signal8 MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries publicly available congressional voting records—historical data about how politicians voted on bills. It performs a read-only lookup operation with no capability to modify, delete, execute code, move money, or trigger external actions. The tool is informational in nature, similar to other Read category tools like 'get_analyst_grades' or 'get_atm_activity' on the same server.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_politician_votes' and description states 'Get voting records for a politician by slug. Returns congressional votes with bill info'. The verb 'Get' and action of 'returns' indicate data retrieval with no modifications or side effects.
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Get voting records for a politician by slug. Returns congressional votes with bill info,. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Signal8 MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Signal8 MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_politician_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 Signal8 MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_politician_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 get_politician_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 get_politician_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.
get_politician_votes is provided by the Signal8 MCP Server MCP server (signal8ai/signal8-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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