diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0f109c3..46296c2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 unittest2==1.1.0
-requests==2.9.1
+requests==2.20.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ed3ac4f..d387c71 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 setup(
   name='govtrack',
   packages=['govtrack'],
-  install_requires=['unittest2==1.1.0','requests==2.9.1',],
+  install_requires=['unittest2==1.1.0','requests==2.20.0',],
   version='0.1',
   description='A Python library for the GovTrack.us API v2.',
   author='Chris Del Guercio',