# Congress Countdown - robots.txt
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User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Sitemap location (canonical host is www — must match metadataBase and sitemap URLs)
Sitemap: https://www.congresscountdown.com/sitemap.xml

# AI crawlers and answer engines are explicitly welcome. This site's value is
# current, sourced facts about Congress; being cited (with attribution) is the
# point. See /llms.txt for an orientation file and /about for data provenance.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
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User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /