Our sources
Everything you see comes from public, official records. We check for new data every 30 minutes and show when each page was last updated.
Votes
Every House roll-call vote, including how each member voted. clerk.house.gov
Every Senate roll-call vote, including how each senator voted. senate.gov
Bills
Titles, sponsors, co-sponsors, committees, every action taken, and links to each version of the text. govinfo.gov
The plain-language bill summaries written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress, published with each bill on Congress.gov.
Official cost estimates, linked from each bill when one exists. cbo.gov
Members and districts
Names, parties, terms, office phone numbers and contact forms for every current member, maintained by the public @unitedstates project. Official member photos come from the same project.
Matches an address to its congressional district. We send the address to the Census Bureau to look it up and don't store it. geocoding.geo.census.gov
How we describe votes
Congress votes on many procedural steps before a final vote. We label those steps and explain what a “yes” meant in plain language, so the real decisions stand out. A bill counts as “common ground” when a majority of voting Democrats and a majority of voting Republicans voted yes.
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