Sources & methodology

Every number here has a paper trail

The Vote Files is an archive of every congressional roll-call vote since 1789, and of the executive orders presidents signed, reproduced from official government records. The site never takes sides. It publishes what the record says, links to where the record lives, and labels the few figures it computes itself.

113,524roll calls 26,390,633individual records 12,678member files 10,599executive orders May 16, 1789first vote Sep 3, 2026latest vote

Data as of 2026-09-15

The sources

What feeds the archive

Source Coverage

Voteview · UCLA 1789 to present The complete roll-call archive, compiled from the official Journals of the House and Senate and from the Congressional Record. Provides every member-level vote on this site, member ideology scores (DW-NOMINATE), and historical party affiliations. Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet. Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Senate.gov · United States Senate 1989 to present Official roll-call vote records of the Senate, 1989 (101st Congress) to present. Every Senate measure page in that window links its Senate.gov record.

Clerk of the House 1990 to present Official roll-call vote records of the House of Representatives, 1990 to present. Every House measure page in that window links its Clerk record.

Congress.gov · Library of Congress 1973 to present Official bill pages, metadata and summaries, 1973 (93rd Congress) to present. Linked from measure pages where available.

GovInfo · US Government Publishing Office 1993 to present Official full bill text, 103rd Congress (1993) to present, and bill status and policy areas, 108th Congress (2003) to present. GPO publishes open bulk-data text from the 113th Congress (2013) onward, which this site fetches on request and shows inline; earlier text is linked at its official source. The original document is always linked.

Biographical Directory of the US Congress All congresses Official member identities and bioguide IDs, with public-domain official portraits mirrored by the unitedstates project.

congress-legislators · the unitedstates project All congresses The canonical crosswalk between official member identifiers, maintained in public on GitHub and compiled from official sources.

U.S. Census Bureau · 119th Congressional District relationship files 119th Congress, 2025 to 2027 The official relationship between 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas and the districts of the 119th Congress. A ZIP area that touches multiple districts is kept as multiple possibilities; the vote card requires the reader to choose and never assigns the largest overlap as if it were a street-address match.

executive.json · the unitedstates project 1789 to date Presidential terms, inauguration to inauguration, including terms begun by succession. Presidential service on a file page comes from here rather than from the Voteview congressional export, which records one presidential row per Congress and so cannot express a term that ended mid-Congress.

Bill explanations

Official summaries, with their version attached

Where available, the bill page reproduces a summary written by legislative analysts at the Congressional Research Service, retrieved from GovInfo BILLSTATUS. VoteFiles preserves the wording and basic paragraph and list formatting. It removes active markup and does not generate or rewrite these summaries.

Each summary names the legislative action and date it covers, its CRS version code, its publication update time, and our last source check. The latest action date sorts first; a later editorial correction to an older stage does not make that stage the latest bill. Summary stages do not always correspond to published text versions or to the text considered in a specific roll call.

A source check older than seven days is marked for recheck. A failed source request preserves the previous snapshot and its original check time. A verified response with no summaries is distinguished from a summary that has not been imported here. Neither means that no official bill text exists. Roll-call questions and vote records remain separate.

How CRS writes bill summaries ↗ · GovInfo BILLSTATUS source ↗

Bills

How far a measure has got, and who decided that

A roll call only exists after a recorded vote, and most measures never get one. So the site also holds every measure introduced in the sitting Congress, from the government's own bill status record, and shows where each one has got to. Placing a measure on a rung is the one thing the bill importer decides for itself, so the whole mapping is printed below with the current count beside each rung. The label a bill page shows is the specific one from the record, such as Passed House; the rung is the generic step that label sits on.

2,976measures on file 119thCongress covered 11have become law

Rung, highest first Measures there now

7. Law 11 The status record carries a public law number, or the latest action says the measure became public law. The law number is shown as the record prints it.

6. To the President 5 An action reads that the measure was presented to the President. A measure the President has vetoed sits on this rung too, labeled Vetoed.

5. Passed both 6 Both a House passage action and a Senate passage action are on the record.

4. Passed a chamber 210 One chamber has a passage action and the other does not. The label names the chamber.

3. Out of committee 296 An action reads that the measure was reported, was ordered to be reported, or was placed on a calendar.

2. In committee 2,448 The record names at least one committee and no action above has happened.

1. Introduced 0 Nothing above is on the record yet.

Rungs are tested from the top down, so a measure sits on the highest one the record supports. Counts on this page are live.

Breaking-topic verification

What “verified” means—and what it does not

A newsroom-selected topic is verified only after VoteFiles explicitly resolves federal, state, local, tribal-sovereignty, administrative, and international or treaty jurisdiction; records the authoritative systems and exact queries checked; opens every primary record used; searches for later or contrary evidence; discloses known gaps; and sets a recheck deadline no more than three days away.

VerifiedThe displayed protocol, scope, source list, primary-evidence ledger, verifier, and deadline all pass. Verification is bounded by that disclosed scope and time.

No match foundNo matching record was found in the sources shown, with the queries shown, at the time shown. It never means that no record exists anywhere.

Coverage review requiredThe review is absent, incomplete, blocked by an unavailable material source, or past its deadline. The public question may remain visible, but VoteFiles publishes no archive-absence claim and no share card.

Reporting versus proofReporting, search results, AI summaries, and social posts can identify leads. They do not replace a docket, order, opinion, statute, regulation, permit, agency decision, official agenda, minutes, contract, or other primary record.

Autonomous coverageAutomation may discover a topic, build a jurisdiction plan, watch a source, detect a changed record, and draft original wording. It cannot make a topic verified by itself: the same structured scope, primary-evidence, contrary-evidence, freshness, and gap checks still run before public state changes.

Known coverage limitsSealed or unpublished material, PACER-only documents, courts without reliable public feeds, fragmented state and local systems, access failures, and conflicting identities are explicit exceptions. The engine records the wall and the route around it; it does not convert the missing source into a negative finding.

92.2%active sources healthy

3operational obligations

66partial obligations

615unavailable or uncovered

332holdest open exception

924source changes · 30 days

8reverified topics · 30 days

5material corrections · 30 days

Live operating measures. “Operational” means the complete declared source cohort is healthy; index-only or incomplete cohorts remain partial even when reachable.

Read the public corrections chronology

Presidential documents

Where the executive orders come from

The numbered series is on file complete, with no missing numbers, from EO 7532 (January 8, 1937) through EO 14427, the latest signed (Sep 8, 2026). Coverage before 1937 is partial and still loading.

10,599executive orders 9,694numbered orders 40presidents covered Jan 22, 1791earliest signed Sep 8, 2026latest signed

Source Coverage

Federal Register EO 12890 (1993) to present Official metadata and full text for every executive order from EO 12890 (December 30, 1993) forward. Verified at build time to contain the complete numbered series with zero missing numbers in its window. Correction and reprint notices are folded into their orders' notes instead of being counted as orders. 1,545 orders on file from this source · live count

National Archives, Executive Orders Disposition Tables 1937 to 2017 The official amend, revoke, and supersede record for EO 7532 (January 8, 1937) through the tables' stated end of January 19, 2017. A third of the year pages are missing from the live archives.gov site; those were retrieved from Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshots of the same NARA pages. Seven signing dates misprinted on the tables were corrected against series position; each such order carries the verbatim misprint in its notes. 5,390 orders on file from this source · live count

The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara Pre-1937, partial Academic archive providing metadata and full text for pre-1937 orders where it holds them. Coverage before 1937 is partial; the project itself states its collection is complete from 1945. Loaded progressively; counts on this page are live. 3,664 orders on file from this source · live count

The courts

Where the docket comes from, and what it does not claim

Judicial opinions and docket entries are works of the United States government and carry no copyright. Every line shown on The Docket is the court's own text: the caption as the clerk filed it, the clerk's own description of the latest entry, and, where a court has stated its decision, that sentence quoted from the court.

1,878cases published 85courts publishing a feed 63state a decision 0links to an executive order

Source Coverage

The federal courts, CM/ECF public docket feeds District courts and courts of appeals, current filings Each court publishes its own recent docket entries. The feed is free and needs no PACER account. Whether a court publishes at all is its own decision, and which ones do is re-measured daily rather than assumed.

Supreme Court of the United States Decided cases of the current term, and each case docket The Court publishes its own slip opinions and its own docket. Its one-sentence statement of what it held is the Court's wording, stored and shown verbatim; this site never writes a summary of a holding.

govinfo, USCOURTS collection (GPO) Published written opinions, 2004 onward Cases from the collection that name the presidency, or that a state or commonwealth brought against a federal body, are on The Docket alongside the feed cases, newest first, and they are where the archive's history from before the feeds were first read comes from. Where a case produced a published opinion, that opinion is read to find citations to executive orders and the sentence in which the court states its decision. Most cases never produce one.

Federal Register, agencies list The names of federal agencies Used to decide whether the party being sued is part of the federal government. Using the government's own list means the choice of which agencies count is not this site's.

What this page will not tell you

It does not keep score. There are no win and loss records for any agency, administration, party or judge, and no case is described as a defeat or a victory. Where a court has stated its decision, that sentence is quoted and attributed to the court. Where it has not, the case shows nothing, which is the common outcome because most cases here are still being argued.

It does not count cases against a person. Where a case names the office of president, the file of the person who held that office is linked from the case and the case from the file, and that is all: no file carries a number of cases, because most suits naming an office say nothing about the person holding it.

Coverage is partial by construction. Publishing a docket feed is each court's own choice, and 23 federal courts do not. Cases brought by a named individual are held on file and never published: most are Social Security disability appeals, which are public record but set out one person's medical history under their own name.

Documents behind PACER carry the judiciary's own per-page charge. This site never buys one. It stores the free docket information and links out to the court's own record.

Project 2025

The one layer here that is not a government record

Everything else on this site is taken from an official record. Project 2025 is not: it reproduces the work of three outside organisations who each read the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership and recorded what has been done about it. They are independent of each other and of this site, they disagree about how many recommendations the document contains, and their totals are shown side by side rather than added together.

977rows, across three trackers 597carry a link you can open 3organisations doing the reading

Source Last updated at source

Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker 2026-02-11 Center for Progressive Reform & Governing for Impact. 532 proposals decomposed from 20 agency chapters of the Mandate, with the page each came from.

Project 2025 Observer 2026-09-11 project2025.observer (community-maintained). 321 objectives across 34 agencies, each linked to the specific order, rule or statute.

Project 2025 Tracker (education chapter) 2025-11-20 EducationCounsel. 124 recommendations from the education chapter only, graded on a five-point scale.

What that page does not claim

It shows correspondence, not causation. Much of what the document recommends restates positions that long predate it, so a recommendation and a matching government action appearing on the same row is not evidence that one caused the other.

The Mandate for Leadership is copyrighted by the Heritage Foundation. The page links to their own copy of it and reproduces none of its text: every recommendation shown is written in our words, not theirs.

Coverage is uneven and the page says where. Domestic administrative action is tracked closely; recommendations needing legislation, and the foreign policy and defense chapters, are barely tracked by any of these three.

Official and derived

What is the record and what is computed from it

Most of this site is reproduction, not judgment. The line sits exactly here: everything in the left column comes from the official record verbatim; everything in the right column is computed by this site from that record and is labeled wherever it appears.

Official · reproduced verbatim

Every individual vote position, exactly as recorded

Vote tallies: yea, nay, present, not voting

Vote dates

Bill numbers

Questions and descriptions

Official results, wherever the record publishes one

Member identities and party affiliations

ZIP-area and congressional-district relationships

Bill text, from the official GPO XML

Derived · computed by this site

Type Classified from the official question, description, and bill number: Passage, Amendment, Cloture, Nomination, Treaty, Veto override, Impeachment, Procedural, Resolution, or Bill action.

Topic A keyword classification of the official vote descriptions. Topic chips on measure pages note that the tag is derived.

Outcome Where the record publishes an official result, that result appears verbatim. Where it does not, the outcome is the majority side of the tally, with a two-thirds test applied to treaties, veto overrides, and impeachment votes, and the page labels it derived.

Recorded-vote claim finding The Claim vs. Record pilot compares one reader-selected cast with the allow-listed member-level cast stored for one exact roll call. Matching values are supported; different recorded values are contradicted; a missing or undated cast is not established. The comparison never infers general support, motive or policy effect.

Attendance The share of a member's recorded roll calls where they voted or answered present.

ZIP vote card The ZIP is matched to the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship file for the sitting Congress. A ZCTA is geographic and is not a promise that every postal address using those digits lies in one district. When the area touches multiple districts, every candidate district is shown and the reader must choose; the site does not guess from land area.

Party loyalty The share of a member's yea and nay votes cast with their own party's majority, counting only votes where the party had a majority side; ties are excluded.

Ideology DW-NOMINATE placement, computed by Voteview from the full voting record, not by this site. Shown with attribution on member files.

Order status (REVOKED, AMENDED) Derived by text-matching the National Archives disposition notes. The tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017; orders outside that window show no status rather than a clean bill.

President attribution, 1937 to 1993 Derived from each order's signing date checked against presidential term dates, and verified to reproduce NARA's published per-president EO ranges exactly.

Series position fixes A handful of numberless or misprinted records were resolved by their position in the numbered series, and each says so in its notes.

Which court cases are shown A case is kept only where the caption names a federal agency or office as the party being sued, matched against the Federal Register's own list of agencies. Everything else the courts publish is counted and discarded. Roughly 6 in every 100 cases the feeds carry are kept.

Who brought a case Read from the caption: a state, an organization, or an individual. Deciding that "Sierra Club" is an organization and a surname is a person is this site's reading of the caption, not the court's. Cases brought by a named individual are not published at all.

How far a bill has got A measure is placed on one of seven rungs by matching the phrases the clerk recorded in its official action list. The full mapping, and how many measures currently sit on each rung, is published further down this page. A rung says where a measure got to and never whether that is good, and nothing here predicts whether a bill will pass.

How much a measure is being argued about A count of public posts citing that measure, taken from one social source in a fixed window. No post, handle, author or link is stored, and nothing says which side the posts took. Method further down this page.

How often a member is looked up The daily count of readers opening that member's Wikipedia article, as Wikimedia publishes it. The median, the peak, and the "most since" line are computed here from those daily counts. Method further down this page.

Docket entry dates Taken from the court, except where the court states a date that cannot be real. Several courts stamp entries with the year 3926; those entries are shown without a date rather than allowed to sort to the top of every list.

Which politician a case appears under For presidents, only a caption that names the office in words ("President of the United States") is linked to the person who held that office on the earliest date the record shows the case before the court. For senators and representatives, the public caption must explicitly name both the person and the federal office, that name must identify exactly one member serving in that chamber on the record date, and every other court-safety gate must pass. The measured nonfederal rollout applies the same principle to verified state, territorial, and local identities. Its accepted identity sources now include the complete reviewed governor/D.C.-mayor cohort, partial independently corroborated attorney-general and other statewide-office cohorts, and 17 exact state-legislator roster adapters; the live lookup publishes the counts actually stored. Most new roster observations remain identity-only until a separate government record establishes the exact service interval required for court matching. A bare name or surname is never used. Personal, campaign, business, family, and individual-capacity matters are excluded. A link is published only in a court whose feed or published opinions let this site follow later action, and cases are listed but never added up. An empty section is not a claim that no case exists.

Citations

Every measure page cites its official record

Each measure page carries a box titled “The official record” that links the government source for that vote:

The official record

Senate votes link their Senate.gov roll-call record, 1989 (101st Congress) to present
House votes link their House Clerk roll-call record, 1990 to present
Bills link their Congress.gov page, 1973 (93rd Congress) to present
Bill text comes from the official GovInfo (GPO) record, 1993 (103rd Congress) to present; shown inline from 2013 (113th Congress), linked at the source before that
Executive orders link their Federal Register document, their National Archives disposition entry, or their American Presidency Project page, whichever the record provides

Votes before those windows are cited to the printed Journals of the House and Senate, as compiled by Voteview. Anyone who contests a number on this site can follow the link and check the official record directly.

Claim vs. Record

A comparison of one assertion with one exact recorded vote

The first Claim vs. Record pilot is intentionally narrower than a general fact-check. A reader identifies one member, Congress, chamber and roll-call number, then chooses YEA, NAY, PRESENT or NOT VOTING. The checker reads the stored member-level cast for those exact coordinates and performs one allow-listed comparison.

Possible findings

Supported by the record means the asserted cast exactly matches the stored cast.
Contradicted by the record means a different, mutually exclusive cast is stored.
Not established by this record means no allow-listed member-level cast is on file. It does not mean the claim is false.

What is not inferred

A procedural vote is not described as general support for or opposition to a bill.
No motive, intent, policy effect, article, quotation or speaker identity is evaluated.
The form is processed without saving a submission or creating a shareable result.

For Senate votes from 1989 onward and House votes from 1990 onward, the result links the direct chamber roll-call page. Earlier member-level casts come from Voteview's compilation of the official House and Senate Journals and are labeled as archival. Every result also opens the complete Vote Files roll-call page so the exact question, tally and surrounding votes can be read in context. Open Claim vs. Record →

The news layer

Headlines from across the spectrum, and nothing written by us

Some pages carry news coverage alongside the record. The rule governing it is short: this site reproduces what an outlet published and links to it, and writes nothing of its own. The value is in the juxtaposition, not in our opinion of it.

What is stored A headline exactly as the outlet published it, the outlet's name, the publication date, a clip of at most 300 characters from the outlet's own feed summary, and a link to the original article. Article bodies are never fetched and never stored.

What is displayed The same four things, always together. A headline never appears without the outlet that wrote it, the date it ran, and a link to the original.

What is never done to outlet material Vote Files does not rewrite, shorten, paraphrase, or summarize an outlet headline or feed clip. Outlet wording remains attributed and linked to its publisher. Showing an item is not agreement with it.

Where matching software is used Software groups outlet items that cover the same story and works out which public file an item may refer to. It can rank attention signals, but it does not rewrite the outlet's words. Uncertain matches are withheld.

Vote Files newsroom copy Separately labeled breaking-topic treatments contain original Vote Files wording: a public question, context, and a bounded account of what selected primary records support. Automated systems, including language models, may assist discovery, research planning, and drafting. Reporting, search results, generated text, and social posts remain leads rather than proof. Public state requires the displayed scope, primary-record, contrary-record, later-action, identity, gap, and freshness checks to pass.

Matching to a measure An article is attached to a bill only when the bill's official name, taken from the government's own bill-status record, appears in the headline or clip, and only when that name identifies exactly one measure. Bills whose short titles are shared by several measures are refused, as are titles that reach a bill by amendment rather than naming it.

Matching to a member An article is attached to a sitting member only when the name in the headline or clip identifies exactly one person out of every member this archive holds, past or present, and that person currently serves. A surname on its own is never enough: five sitting members are named Johnson and five are named Smith. Where a name is shared, the article must also name the state, and where that still leaves a choice, nothing is attached.

Nicknames The press uses names the government record does not carry, so a short published list maps a few of them to the official entry: AOC to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders to the Bernard Sanders of the record. Every entry is listed in the site's source code, each is checked at load time against the archive and refused unless it identifies exactly one sitting member, and matches made this way are recorded separately from matches made on the official name. Nicknames used as commentary rather than as names are not carried.

When in doubt, nothing is shown Every uncertain match is dropped rather than guessed at, and every rejection is logged with its reason so the miss rate can be measured instead of assumed. An article that is not shown is invisible. An article shown against the wrong member is a false accusation. The site is built to prefer the first mistake to the second.

Outlet positions

Who says these outlets lean this way

We do. There is no third-party rating behind these positions and no panel. Each outlet is placed once, by hand, and the placement describes that outlet's editorial orientation and its audience. It says nothing about whether the outlet is accurate, honest or reliable, because this site does not rate the credibility of news organizations and has no business doing so.

Positions are assigned to the outlet, never to the article. Judging each article's slant would mean passing judgment on writing we did not read closely and cannot defend, which is exactly the kind of claim this site refuses to make. Grouping by outlet keeps every judgment in one auditable list, published below.

These are judgment calls and reasonable people will disagree with some of them. Coverage Lens now measures co-coverage at the story level—how many monitored outlets and source positions carried a deterministically matched event—but it does not quietly turn that sample into a new political rating. Feed mix, publishing volume and the matching threshold can all affect co-coverage. The positions below therefore remain our disclosed editorial calls while the measured story evidence is published separately for readers to inspect. Open Coverage Lens →

Left of center

The Guardian (US politics)

NPR Politics

NPR Congress

Politico

ABC News Politics

HuffPost Politics

Slate News & Politics

Center

The Hill

Roll Call

Axios

CBS News Politics

NBC News Politics

PBS NewsHour Politics

Christian Science Monitor

Newsweek

Government Executive

Right of center

Fox News Politics

Washington Examiner

The Washington Times

National Review

New York Post Politics

Just the News

The Daily Caller

Washington Free Beacon

Breitbart

RedState

Every outlet above is carried at its own published feed. Feeds that stop returning a headline, a link or a date are dropped rather than patched around.

Attention

Counting the argument without repeating any of it

Some measures carry a count of how much they are being posted about. The rule is the opposite of the news layer's: the news layer reproduces a headline and links to it, and this counts posts and stores none of them. Nothing a member of the public wrote about a member of Congress appears anywhere on this site.

38measures counted 367readings on file 3day window per reading 24readings marked a floor

Source Public search, no account, free

Bluesky The only social source used. It publishes a search anyone can call without logging in, which means a reader can run the same search this site ran and see the same posts. Two other platforms were considered and are not used. Reddit's free access is limited to non-commercial projects, and X charges for access and sets conditions on how posts may be displayed.

What is counted For a measure the site is already showing, the number of Bluesky posts that cite it, the number of distinct accounts those posts came from, and the replies, quotes, reposts and likes those posts carry.

What is never stored No post text. No handle. No author identifier. No link to a post. This is enforced by the table itself, which has no column any of them could go in, rather than by the page that renders it. Distinct accounts are counted while the reply is being read and the identifiers are then discarded.

Why a count and not a quote An outlet headline has a newsroom standing behind it, which is why the news layer reproduces headlines and links to them. A stranger's post about a named member has nobody standing behind it, and reprinting one on that member's file would be this site republishing an unchecked allegation. A count cannot do that.

What is searched The measure's citation in both the forms people write it, "H.R. 1" and "HR 1", plus the measure's short title, and the title only where that title names this measure and no other. That is the same refusal the news matcher applies: "SAVE America Act" is the short title of three different measures of this Congress, so counting posts about all three against one of them would be a fabricated number. The exact search strings are stored beside every reading so a count can be checked.

Why some counts say "at least" The search endpoint serves the first page of results to anyone and refuses every request for a second page, so the ceiling is 100 posts per search string. When a search fills its page the real number is higher than the one on file, and the reading is marked as a floor and the page says "at least" instead of presenting a capped count as a total.

What it is not It is not approval, opposition or support, and no page here says which side the posts took, because that is not counted and not stored. It is a measure of how much a measure is being argued about, and nothing else.

Latest reading taken Sep 15, 2026. Counts on this page are live.

Lookups

When the public went looking, and what that does not mean

A member file shows how often that member's Wikipedia article was read, day by day. It earns a place there for one reason: it says when people went looking, and the voting record underneath says what they found. It is a count of readers and nothing more, and the section below sets out exactly how it is taken so that a reader can check it or dispute it.

552members on file 20,424daily counts Jul 17, 2026earliest day held Aug 22, 2026latest day held

Source Coverage

Wikimedia, pageviews per article July 2015 to present Wikimedia's own published count of how many readers opened an article each day, keyless and free. July 2015 is the earliest day it holds, which is why nothing here reaches further back.

Wikidata, property P1157 The identifier join P1157 is the US Congress Biographical Directory ID. It is what connects a member file to an article, in place of matching on a name.

What is counted The number of times a member's English Wikipedia article was opened by a reader on a given day, as Wikimedia publishes it. Wikimedia's own filtering of automated traffic is used; this site applies none of its own.

How a member is matched to an article By identifier, never by name. Wikidata records the Biographical Directory ID for a person under property P1157, and the article is whichever one that identifier points at. Names were not used because this archive stores them surname-first with nicknames in brackets and Wikipedia disambiguates with parentheses, and a name match puts the wrong person on a page. One member of the sitting Congress has no P1157 on file and so has no lookups here.

What the file shows The last 30 days as daily bars, the busiest day in that window, the typical day, and the window total. The typical day is the median rather than the average, because a single day of heavy reading drags an average away from what an ordinary day looks like.

The "most since" line Where it appears, it means exactly what it says: the busiest day in the window is the busiest since that date, checked against every day on file for that member back to July 2015. It is withheld in three cases. The peak has to be at least three times that member's own typical day, so an ordinary week does not get announced. The previous busier day has to be at least 180 days back, so the line is not "the most since last Tuesday". And a member whose article is under a year old cannot support "since" anything. Without those three tests the line fired for half of the members it was tried on.

What it is not It is not approval, support, favourability or importance, and it is not a poll. It records that people went and read about a member on a day, which is why it sits above that member's voting record rather than instead of it. Reading about someone is not agreement with them.

Why this is disclosed at this length

A daily line next to a politician's name invites being read as a popularity score, and it is not one. A member can be looked up because they were named to a ticket, because they lost a primary, or because they died. The count is the same shape in every case, and this site does not say which it was.

Corrections

When the record changes, the archive follows

The House and Senate occasionally correct a vote after the fact. The archive refreshes from the sources above and stamps every page with the date of its data, currently 2026-09-15. If you find a discrepancy between this site and the official record, report it through the tracked correction desk. The site checks the official source and corrects the archive.

The same route handles the news layer. A headline attached to the wrong measure, or a verified publisher removal request, is reviewed through the tracked desk before the public feed changes. The full terms are on the terms page.

Legal notes

Where this site stands

Public domain Works of the United States government are public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Roll-call records, tallies, and bill texts are works of the United States government.

Headlines belong to their outlets Headlines shown on this site are the property of the outlets that published them, are reproduced exactly as published with attribution and a link to the original, and are shown without endorsement. A publisher can use the tracked headline-or-outlet request category to ask for removal; identity and scope are reviewed before a feed change.

Perspective, not credibility Where this site places an outlet on the spectrum, it describes that outlet's editorial orientation. It is not a statement about whether the outlet is accurate, honest or reliable. This site does not rate the credibility of any news organization.

Public record The votes, tallies, and texts reproduced on this site are facts of the public record, drawn from the official sources listed above.

Independent This site is independent and nonpartisan. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any government body.

Not legal advice Nothing on this site is legal advice.

No official seals Official seals are not used anywhere on this site.