Votes Database
Wednesday, 7 December 2005 by Jacob TomawThe Washington Post has created a project called The Votes Database. It contains all the votes for the U.S. Congress back to 1991. It allows you to see how congress is voting and breaks down the numbers. The votes for a bill can be sorted by party, state, region, baby-boomer status, gender, and astrological sign. It also shows how individual Congressmen voted and how that compares with the party lines. They also have an RSS feed of recent votes for the whole congress and feeds of the votes for individual Congressmen.
You can use all this information along with Thomas to see if you representatives represent you.
There are also some fun aggregations on the front page. You can see who has missed the most votes in the House (Rep. Leonard Boswell) and Senate (Sen. Jon Corzine). Some others are vote margins and bills that received the most and least votes.
I have setup this page for my district, Illinois’ 5th District, with Rep. Emanuel, Sen. Obama, and Sen. Durbin.
December 7th, 2005 at 14:59
Hey, I’m one of the Post people who put the votes site together (and I live in Chicago, by the way). Thanks for the writeup!