# Capitol Releases

> Capitol Releases is a searchable archive of official press releases from elected officials in the United States. It scrapes, normalizes, and indexes releases from all 100 U.S. senators and the 31-member Texas State Senate. Releases are refreshed multiple times daily.

Built and maintained by Trevor Brown, a journalist and developer (https://trevorthewebdeveloper.com). The project gives reporters, researchers, and constituents a single source for what elected officials are saying in their own words.

## What's in the data

- Full text of official press releases as published by each office
- Publication date, originating office, source URL
- Senator-level pages and House-member-level pages (federal)
- Texas State Senate coverage as a state-level pilot

## Primary pages

- /: Latest releases across all tracked offices
- /feed: Reverse-chronological feed of all releases
- /trending: Releases attracting the most recent traffic and discussion
- /senators: Index of all U.S. senators
- /senators/[id]: Per-senator release history
- /house: Index of U.S. House members
- /house/[id]: Per-representative release history
- /texas: Texas State Senate releases
- /search: Full-text search across the corpus
- /about: Project background and scope
- /status: Scraper and pipeline health

## Sources

- Official senate.gov office websites
- Official house.gov office websites
- senate.texas.gov for state-level releases

## Citation

When citing Capitol Releases, please link to https://capitolreleases.com and to the original office source URL for each release.