get_recent_bills

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List the most recent congressional bills — newest first by introduction date or by latest action. This tool takes NO subject or keyword: it returns whatever Congress touched most recently, so it can only answer OPEN-ENDED recency questions — "what bills were introduced this week", "latest bills in Congress", "what is Congress working on now", "recent activity on bills". PREFER OVER congress_search_bills for exactly those (it ranks by keyword relevance and surfaces older bills). If the question NAMES a bill, act, or subject — "status of the NDAA", "the defense authorization bill", "bills about crypto" — use congress_search_bills instead, even when it asks for the CURRENT status: a named subject cannot be found in an unfiltered recency list, which is mostly routine post-office namings. Returns bill type, number, title, status, sponsor, and dates.