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PocketVeto/backend/app/workers/congress_poller.py
Jack Levy c48241fe2f Limit bills to last 2 months + filter out procedural resolutions
- Drop hres/sres/hconres/sconres (simple/concurrent resolutions) from poller;
  only track hr, s, hjres, sjres (legislation that can become law)
- On first run, seed from 60 days back instead of full congress history,
  keeping the bill count to ~1,600 instead of 13,000+

Authored-By: Jack Levy
2026-02-28 22:21:34 -05:00

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"""
Congress.gov poller — incremental bill and member sync.
Runs on Celery Beat schedule (every 30 min by default).
Uses fromDateTime to fetch only recently updated bills.
All operations are idempotent.
"""
import logging
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from app.database import get_sync_db
from app.models import Bill, BillAction, Member, AppSetting
from app.services import congress_api
from app.workers.celery_app import celery_app
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def _get_setting(db, key: str, default=None) -> str | None:
row = db.get(AppSetting, key)
return row.value if row else default
def _set_setting(db, key: str, value: str) -> None:
row = db.get(AppSetting, key)
if row:
row.value = value
else:
db.add(AppSetting(key=key, value=value))
db.commit()
# Only track legislation that can become law. Simple/concurrent resolutions
# (hres, sres, hconres, sconres) are procedural and not worth analyzing.
TRACKED_BILL_TYPES = {"hr", "s", "hjres", "sjres"}
@celery_app.task(bind=True, max_retries=3, name="app.workers.congress_poller.poll_congress_bills")
def poll_congress_bills(self):
"""Fetch recently updated bills from Congress.gov and enqueue document + LLM processing."""
db = get_sync_db()
try:
last_polled = _get_setting(db, "congress_last_polled_at")
# On first run, seed from 2 months back rather than the full congress history
if not last_polled:
two_months_ago = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=60)
last_polled = two_months_ago.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
current_congress = congress_api.get_current_congress()
logger.info(f"Polling Congress {current_congress} (since {last_polled})")
new_count = 0
updated_count = 0
offset = 0
while True:
response = congress_api.get_bills(
congress=current_congress,
offset=offset,
limit=250,
from_date_time=last_polled,
)
bills_data = response.get("bills", [])
if not bills_data:
break
for bill_data in bills_data:
parsed = congress_api.parse_bill_from_api(bill_data, current_congress)
if parsed.get("bill_type") not in TRACKED_BILL_TYPES:
continue
bill_id = parsed["bill_id"]
existing = db.get(Bill, bill_id)
if existing is None:
# Upsert sponsor member if referenced
sponsor_id = _sync_sponsor(db, bill_data)
parsed["sponsor_id"] = sponsor_id
parsed["last_checked_at"] = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
db.add(Bill(**parsed))
db.commit()
new_count += 1
# Enqueue document fetch
from app.workers.document_fetcher import fetch_bill_documents
fetch_bill_documents.delay(bill_id)
else:
_update_bill_if_changed(db, existing, parsed)
updated_count += 1
db.commit()
offset += 250
if len(bills_data) < 250:
break
# Update last polled timestamp
_set_setting(db, "congress_last_polled_at", datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"))
logger.info(f"Poll complete: {new_count} new, {updated_count} updated")
return {"new": new_count, "updated": updated_count}
except Exception as exc:
db.rollback()
logger.error(f"Poll failed: {exc}")
raise self.retry(exc=exc, countdown=60)
finally:
db.close()
@celery_app.task(bind=True, max_retries=3, name="app.workers.congress_poller.sync_members")
def sync_members(self):
"""Sync current Congress members."""
db = get_sync_db()
try:
offset = 0
synced = 0
while True:
response = congress_api.get_members(offset=offset, limit=250, current_member=True)
members_data = response.get("members", [])
if not members_data:
break
for member_data in members_data:
parsed = congress_api.parse_member_from_api(member_data)
if not parsed.get("bioguide_id"):
continue
existing = db.get(Member, parsed["bioguide_id"])
if existing is None:
db.add(Member(**parsed))
else:
for k, v in parsed.items():
setattr(existing, k, v)
synced += 1
db.commit()
offset += 250
if len(members_data) < 250:
break
logger.info(f"Synced {synced} members")
return {"synced": synced}
except Exception as exc:
db.rollback()
raise self.retry(exc=exc, countdown=120)
finally:
db.close()
def _sync_sponsor(db, bill_data: dict) -> str | None:
"""Ensure the bill sponsor exists in the members table. Returns bioguide_id or None."""
sponsors = bill_data.get("sponsors", [])
if not sponsors:
return None
sponsor_raw = sponsors[0]
bioguide_id = sponsor_raw.get("bioguideId")
if not bioguide_id:
return None
existing = db.get(Member, bioguide_id)
if existing is None:
db.add(Member(
bioguide_id=bioguide_id,
name=sponsor_raw.get("fullName", ""),
first_name=sponsor_raw.get("firstName"),
last_name=sponsor_raw.get("lastName"),
party=sponsor_raw.get("party", "")[:10] if sponsor_raw.get("party") else None,
state=sponsor_raw.get("state"),
))
db.commit()
return bioguide_id
def _update_bill_if_changed(db, existing: Bill, parsed: dict) -> bool:
"""Update bill fields if anything has changed. Returns True if updated."""
changed = False
track_fields = ["title", "short_title", "latest_action_date", "latest_action_text", "status"]
for field in track_fields:
new_val = parsed.get(field)
if new_val and getattr(existing, field) != new_val:
setattr(existing, field, new_val)
changed = True
if changed:
existing.last_checked_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
db.commit()
# Check for new text versions now that the bill has changed
from app.workers.document_fetcher import fetch_bill_documents
fetch_bill_documents.delay(existing.bill_id)
return changed