This server is an MCP interface to official US government transparency data — congressional stock trades, federal contracts, campaign finance, lobbying, regulations, and bill status — paid per call with USDC via x402.
Congressional stock trades: Search House member trades by member, ticker, buy/sell type, state, and date window ($0.02), and browse the disclosure filing index with PDF links ($0.01).
Federal contracts: Search contract awards by company, agency, and date ($0.01), or resolve a company to official recipient records and UEI ($0.01).
Campaign finance: Find candidates by name to get official ids and committees ($0.005), then pull receipts, spending, cash on hand, and debts ($0.01).
Lobbying: Search lobbying filings by client or firm, with reported income, issues, and lobbyists ($0.01).
Regulations and bills: Watch the Federal Register for newest rules/notices by topic ($0.005), and check official status of any bill in Congress ($0.005).
Free introspection: get_endpoint_spec lists all routes, schemas, and worked examples without a wallet.
Payment model: Calls require a dedicated low-balance wallet with USDC on Base; each paid call returns settlement transaction hash under _payment — no data without payment, no payment without data.
Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@gov-transparency-mcp Show recent stock trades by Nancy Pelosi"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Watch the watchers. Congressional stock trades, federal contract awards, campaign finance, lobbying filings, and new regulations — nine MCP tools over official US government data, paid per call with x402 USDC on Base. No account, no API key, no subscription.
Commercial trackers sell congressional-trading data behind monthly subscriptions. Here it is per-call, in structured JSON, for agents: $0.005–$0.02 a query.
Tool | Price | What it returns |
| $0.02 | US House member stock trades parsed from official STOCK Act filings — member, ticker, buy/sell, date, amount range. Filter by member, ticker, type, state, date window. |
| $0.01 | The disclosure filing index — who filed trade reports and when, with official PDF links. |
| $0.01 | Federal contract awards won by any company — amounts, agencies, dates, descriptions. |
| $0.01 | Company → official federal recipient records with UEI and recent award totals. |
| $0.01 | Campaign finance totals per candidate — receipts, spending, cash on hand, debts. |
| $0.005 | Candidate name → official ids, party, office, committees. |
| $0.01 | Lobbying filings by client or firm — money, issues, named lobbyists. |
| $0.005 | Newest regulations and notices matching any topic. |
| $0.005 | Official status of any bill in Congress. |
| free | Live schemas and worked examples for all nine routes. |
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All official, all public domain: US House Clerk financial disclosures (parsed from the source PTR PDFs), USAspending.gov, the Federal Election Commission, the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database, the Federal Register, and Congress.gov. Trade disclosures lag transactions by up to 45 days — that is the law's reporting window, not a data delay. Current trade coverage: US House (Senate planned); paper-filed disclosures are indexed with PDF links but not parsed into rows.
{
"mcpServers": {
"gov-transparency": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@forgemeshlabs/gov-transparency-mcp"],
"env": {
"WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..."
}
}
}
}WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY must be a dedicated low-balance wallet holding a small amount of USDC on Base mainnet — never your primary wallet. get_endpoint_spec works without one.
Node.js 20+ and a dedicated, low-balance Base wallet funded with USDC. The server refuses to sign for any payee other than the two Utility Grid wallets, any network other than Base mainnet, any asset other than USDC, or any amount over the cap ($0.02 per call, $10 per session). The env vars X402_MAX_PRICE_USD and X402_SESSION_BUDGET_USD can only lower those caps. Requests are same-origin, time out after 60 seconds, are capped at 2 MB, and never follow redirects.
Each call makes a normal HTTP request; the server answers 402 Payment Required with exact terms, the client signs a USDC transfer authorization (EIP-3009) and retries, and the settlement transaction hash comes back in the response under _payment. Atomic: no data without payment, no payment without data.
MIT — code only. The underlying government data is public domain.
PAID ($0.005) — Search US federal candidates by name: candidate ids, party, office, state, district, and principal campaign committees. The cheap resolver before get_candidate_money. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: candidate (required).
PAID ($0.01) — Campaign finance totals for a US federal candidate: receipts, spending, cash on hand, debts, individual vs PAC split, per recent cycle. Pass a name (fuzzy) or exact candidate_id; optional office preference. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: office, candidate, candidate_id.
PAID ($0.02) — Congressional stock trades parsed from official STOCK Act disclosures: US House member trades with ticker, asset, buy/sell, transaction date, and disclosed amount range. Filter by member name, ticker, trade type (purchase/sale/sale_partial/exchange), state, or date window. Disclosures lag trades by up to 45 days by law. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: type, limit, since, state, +3 more.
PAID ($0.01) — Resolve a company name to its official federal recipient records: legal name, UEI, parent/child level, recent federal award totals, profile link. Use before search_federal_contracts to disambiguate entities. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: company (required), limit.
FREE — no wallet needed. Live call spec for the gov-transparency routes: price, input JSON schema, and worked request/response examples from the service's OpenAPI doc. Call with no arguments to list all nine routes, or pass a path for full detail.
Inputs: path.
PAID ($0.01) — US House financial-disclosure filing index: who filed periodic transaction reports, annual reports, amendments, and more — filer, district, type, date, and official PDF link. Poll filing_type 'P' to catch fresh trade disclosures early. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: year, limit, state, member, +1 more.
PAID ($0.005) — Official status of a bill in the US Congress: title, sponsor, latest action, policy area, committees, and counts of actions/cosponsors/amendments. Address by congress number, type (hr, s, hjres, sjres...), and bill number. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: type, number, congress.
PAID ($0.01) — Federal contract awards won by any company: award id, dollar amount, awarding agency, dates, description, and record link, sorted largest first. Optional agency and date-window filters. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: recipient (required), limit, since, until, +1 more.
PAID ($0.01) — US federal lobbying filings by client company or lobbying firm: reported income, issue areas, specific-issue text, and named lobbyists per filing. Optional year filter. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: year, client, registrant.
PAID ($0.005) — Newest US regulations and official notices matching a topic: proposed and final rules, executive orders, and notices with agency, date, abstract, and links, newest first. Empty query returns the latest government-wide. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
Inputs: q.
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Scored across 10 tools
The tools are mostly distinct, each targeting a specific transparency dataset like contracts, lobbying, bills, or campaign finance. The only real ambiguity is between get_trade_filings and get_congress_trades, but their descriptions clarify that one returns the filing index while the other returns parsed stock trade data.
The set generally follows a verb_noun pattern with get_ and search_ prefixes, which is predictable. Minor inconsistencies like find_candidate versus search_federal_contracts and watch_federal_register are understandable but prevent a perfect score.
Ten tools is well-scoped for a government transparency server covering multiple domains without feeling bloated or thin. Each tool serves a distinct purpose, and the resolver tools like find_candidate and get_contractor_profile earn their place.
The server covers a broad set of transparency topics: congressional trades, federal contracts, campaign finance, lobbying, regulations, and bills. Minor gaps exist such as no direct way to retrieve full filing text or detailed congress member profiles, but the core workflows are reasonably complete.
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