About

This site mirrors every recorded vote in the United States Congress — both chambers, every member, updated nightly from the official sources: the House Clerk's electronic voting system and the Senate's legislative information system. Nothing here is scraped from a third party, and every number links back to the record it came from.

Why it exists

Most federal law passes with no member-level record at all — in the 118th Congress, 274 laws were enacted on just 53 Senate recorded passage votes. When members are on the record, that record rarely reaches the people they represent: the syndicated "how your delegation voted" column that ran in local papers for fifty years lost its main supplier in 2025, and local newsrooms have thinned past the point of tracking roll calls themselves. This site is infrastructure for whoever still does that work — reporters, advocates, and constituents.

How the news score works

In Congress, somebody crosses party lines on most votes — defection alone is noise, not signal. Every vote here gets a 0–100 score built from:

• Margin — how few votes would have flipped the outcome, against the actual threshold (majority, three-fifths, two-thirds);
• Pivotal crossings — whether the members who broke ranks decided the result;
• Surprise — crossings weighted by each member's own history, so a habitual maverick counts less than a first-time defector;
• Upsets — the majority party losing a vote;
• Stakes — final passage and veto overrides outweigh procedure; quorum calls score zero.

The score and its reasons print on every vote page. Filters you can't inspect are just another black box; this one shows its work.

What this site can't tell you

• Unanimous consent is invisible. Most enacted law never gets a roll call. Absence of a vote is not evidence of support or opposition.
• Committee votes are not here yet. They decide most bills' fate and are published only as PDFs scattered across committee sites; structured coverage is on the roadmap.
• Proxy-era caveat: House votes from May 2020 to January 2023 may have been cast by proxy; the record does not distinguish them, so we make no attendance claims for that window.
• Delegates from DC and the territories vote only in the Committee of the Whole; their pages say so, and their absence from other rolls is structural, not truancy.

For organizations: publish a scorecard

If your group tracks congressional votes, you can publish a scorecard here in an afternoon: pick the votes, declare the position you wanted and why, and get a public page, a CSV, and an embed for your own site. The site hosts the arithmetic under your name — it never authors the judgment, and the raw votes stay one click away from every grade.

Reuse the data

Everything is available as JSON at /api/votes, /api/members, and per-member endpoints. Cite the official sources, not us — we're a mirror with arithmetic on top.