Pick a state
Meet its delegation and ask John Q. Public about their record.
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What you'll find
Congress Members
Explore the current senators and representatives of each state, and learn what bills they support.
Bills
The bills each congress member sponsored and cosponsored, how far each one has gone, and its summary and text.
Votes
See what each member has voted 'Yea' or 'Nay' on, giving you a record of their stances on legislation.
Getting started
How it works
Pick a state
Click into a state to see a map of it's districts.
Learn about legislators
Click on a congress member to see their bills, votes and committees.
Ask John
We feed all of this information into the context for John, our interactive assistant, to make sure the responses are accurate.
John Q. Public
John is an interactive assistant that answers questions about what members of Congress have done and what bills mean, using only the records available this site. All information is sourced directly from bills' contents and metadata, at answer time.
- Searches our database of records before responding
- Cites a source for every statement of fact, linking it into the response
- Will respond when an answer can't be found, rather than guessing
- Returns information, without introducing judgement or bias on subjects
Questions to try
- Which of their bills became law?
- How have they voted on farm bills?
- What does this bill say?
Sources
Where this site sources it's information
- GovInfo
Bill text and status, including Congressional Research Service summaries.
- Clerk of the House
House roll call votes.
- U.S. Senate
Senate roll call votes.
- @unitedstates project
Current members, committees and committee seats.