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## Shared federal gateway and "DEMO_KEY"

- regulations.gov, Congress.gov and GovInfo sit behind the same api.data.gov gateway (api-umbrella); all three accept the undocumented placeholder `api_key=DEMO_KEY`, capped at `x-ratelimit-limit: 10`, though none of their own docs mention it [obj_01M4V8TAAQXZ71AD5QM9BX30ZT], confirmed separately on Congress.gov [obj_01M4V8SB45H690CN7DDH11Q3CE] and Regulations.gov v4 [obj_01M4V8S94NRB8WFE50892KM051].
- api.data.gov's developer manual documents a fixed 8-code error contract (API_KEY_MISSING, API_KEY_INVALID, API_KEY_DISABLED, API_KEY_UNAUTHORIZED, API_KEY_UNVERIFIED, HTTPS_REQUIRED, OVER_RATE_LIMIT, NOT_FOUND) shared across every api-umbrella-fronted agency [obj_01M45QPW7XKYCNY7XV4GP5TAT8].

## Bill- and parliament-tracking APIs

- Congress.gov API v3 is JSON by default, XML via `format=xml`, silently clamps `limit` to 250 (`limit=0` means 1), returns 200-with-only-`prev` past the end, and `pagination.next` drops the caller's key [obj_01M3RAJSC8K7D72SCJDZ5DPMTP]. Its `/bill/{congress}/{type}/{number}/{subresource}` grammar changes response shape per segment, and a bad `type` vs a bad `number` give two different 404 bodies [obj_01M45QTHDVPJMKS8V6BRMYBGWN].
- GovTrack's API v2 is still live, keyless, Tastypie-paginated, honoring `limit` past 250-600 (though `limit=0` hangs) [obj_01M45QTGV1Q7KH112AJTA5Z3FW].
- UK Parliament's Bills API v1 does not clamp `Take` (5000 returns all 4,055 rows) and answers a bad `Take` with RFC 9110 `problem+json` [obj_01M3RPSJWBXQJZ7X4HP1N9D176]; its Members API, on the same host, silently clamps `take` to 20 and a past-the-end `skip` is 200 with a self-referencing `next` link [obj_01M3RPS7T7QB26J4ZT364NV8YX].
- European Parliament's Open Data API v2 `limit=1000` pool-exhaustion bug from 2026-09-30 no longer reproduces on retest; `format=` still only accepts a media type, `Accept` is ignored, past-the-end paging is 204 [obj_01M3RPSXV2442Z6MZW0NSJ5107].

## Point-in-time law text

- A UK Act's text as of a past date is fetched by inserting the date before `/data.xml`; a date before commencement is a plain 404, not a clamp to the earliest version [obj_01M4RZ1TSYWXWTEX581TDS1WBD].
- legislation.gov.au's "/latest/text" page is an Angular shell — the real point-in-time text lives at a separate, plain-GET-able EPUB URL [obj_01M4V8SH3VEBBNRS9W5PE5KYKG].
- legislation.govt.nz answers every path (API, XML, human page) with HTTP 202 and an AWS WAF "challenge," empty body, regardless of User-Agent [obj_01M45MXXB1CQ621GPFRWPTZVQ0].

## Lobbying and campaign-finance disclosures

- The US Senate's LDA API rebranded from lda.senate.gov to lda.gov; `page_size` clamps at 25, anonymous throttle is 15/min [obj_01M45M9AZ6AN28J5ST3QV75QJ9]. US House disclosures have no working path at all: legacy ZIPs 404, the live portal is Cloudflare-gated, the preview host 500s [obj_01M45M9CJQJ237Z7D16GDM9H36].
- FollowTheMoney/NIMP's API returns two different HTTP-200-on-failure shapes depending which parameter is missing [obj_01M45CDVEZQH56VHS897T17VBT], consistent with a broader finding that election/campaign-finance APIs mostly fail with 200, not an error status [obj_01M45CEPXBPM36PK4VME287PYT].

## Civic-engagement aggregators

- Represent (Open North, Canada) clamps pagination at 1000, serves a host-relative `next`, and 404s a bad postcode as HTML, not JSON [obj_01M45CE6YSSNJ2NPAY23RXHQ25].
- Of four "civic" aggregators probed the same day — Google Civic Information, ProPublica Congress, OpenSecrets, TheyWorkForYou — each fails differently: a 403-vs-400 key gate hiding a retired method, a retired authorizer now 500ing, a "discontinued" notice served as 200 HTML, and a 503 API beside a 200 homepage [obj_01M3RPTM3MYYGAZ25CT7R5HBES].
- OpenStates API v3: keyless is 403, a wrong key is 401, `?apikey`/`X-API-KEY` are interchangeable, and its public `openapi.json` is the only way to learn the grammar without a key [obj_01M3RPRH887JHV49BKM6SSM06P].

## Disagreements and open questions

- Pagination limits on civic/election platforms are set independently per deployment, not per underlying platform [obj_01M45CERJ7CPG00ABN7T10M4XK] — borne out by UK Parliament's own Bills API (uncapped) disagreeing with its Members API (clamped to 20) on the same host [obj_01M3RPSJWBXQJZ7X4HP1N9D176] vs [obj_01M3RPS7T7QB26J4ZT364NV8YX].
- Across seven legislative-data hosts, "key required" alone answers as 401, 403, 400, 500, or a 200 HTML page depending on the host, with no single predicting rule [obj_01M3RPWC0BC5CAPR0T44EXZ2QQ].

## Possibly stale

None recorded as of 2026-10-22. Records range from 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-13, all inside the last 30 days; the one tracked regression (European Parliament's pagination bug) was already confirmed fixed on retest within the same window [obj_01M3RPSXV2442Z6MZW0NSJ5107].

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