mcp server
Oravan
Nonpartisan U.S. Congress data: bill decodes, rep lookup, bilingual EN/ES, read-only, no accounts.
Description as published by the maintainer. Source
- version 0.1.0
- active
active — Registry entry last updated 2026-07-12.
What this server can do
5 functions, named and described by the server itself. Parameter names are shown because they say more about what a function does than its name usually does.
get_bill(slug, locale, citation)- Get the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g. "hr-2701-119") or citation (e.g. "H.R. 2701" - resolves to the most recent Congress on a match). Returns the AI-generated summary (headline, tl;dr, what/who/why/cost - automatically checked before publish and clearly labeled when present), the official status in plain language, an urgency band, sponsor, key dates, the official Congress.gov page, and an act_url to Oravan's on-site call flow. This tool never drafts a phone script - script generation happens only on-site, where the caller reads and can edit the script before dialing; that is not available over this API.
get_representative(locale, bioguide)- Get full details for one member of Congress by bioguide ID (e.g. "W000797"), plus their 5 most recently active sponsored bills. Facts only: no scorecards, ratings, or vote grades. Required: bioguide.
lookup_representatives(zip, locale)- Look up a person's U.S. House member and two Senators by 5-digit ZIP code. Returns each member's name, party, phone, official website, portrait URL, and district office phone numbers - the number a constituent should actually call. Some ZIP codes span more than one congressional district (needs_address: true, all candidate districts returned); this tool does not perform address-level refinement itself in this release - point the person to the response's reps_url, where a stateless, unlogged Census-geocoder proxy narrows it to a single district from a street address that Oravan never stores. When a House seat currently has no member, `vacancies` lists the empty seat(s) (state + district) explicitly - the departed member is never returned as if still serving, and no election timeline is implied. Required: zip.
search_bills(limit, query, topic, locale, status, active_only)- Search Oravan's bilingual federal bill corpus by free-text query, issue topic, status, or active-only. Returns short teasers (headline, status, urgency) for matching bills, most urgent first.
whats_moving(days, limit, topic, locale)- What's moving in Congress recently: active, plain-language-decoded bills that cleared Oravan's 'act now' urgency bar within the last N days (default 7), optionally filtered by topic. Returns an honest empty list with quiet_week: true when nothing has cleared the bar - this tool never pads the list to look busier than Congress actually is this week. If the list is empty because Oravan's own data sync looks stale rather than Congress being quiet, data_stale is set instead so that distinction is never lost.
Last successful function declaration observed on . Source: https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp. We list what the server declared; we do not call any of these functions.
Endpoint status observed on . Source: https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp.
Signals
These are separate measurements of different things. They are deliberately not combined into one score, because a popularity number that mixes website traffic with saves and stars cannot be checked or acted on.
| Signal | Value | What it measures | Window | Observed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest published version | 0.1.0 | Latest version string the maintainer published to the registry. | as of fetch | Model Context Protocol | |
| Registry record last updated | 2026-07-12 | When the registry record was last updated by its maintainer. | point in time | Model Context Protocol | |
| First listed in the MCP Registry | 2026-07-12 | Date this server was first published to the official MCP Registry. Not a usage or quality measure. | point in time | Model Context Protocol | |
| mcp tools declared | 5 tools | Number of functions the server itself declared when asked to list them. This is what the server offers an agent, not a measure of how well any of them work. | as of probe | oravan.org | |
| mcp endpoint status | ok | The server listed 5 functions when asked. | as of probe | oravan.org |
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