COOL Congressional Vote Database

[shraby]

(posted at Dailykos)
The Washington Post has created a Congress Voting Database. You can see how members of Congress voted all the way back to 1991.

Hat Tip to Taegan Goddard at Political Wire

Now we'll be able to see how everyone voted with the click of the mouse. You'll get house votes, senate votes, recent votes and not so recent votes. Also wide margin and narrow margin votes.

<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/>

[Debau2005]

1. Thanks!

I'll book mark this. I am reviewing my Senators and Representative now. Although I am blue in a red district, I know the outcome.

[enough]

2. Very useful, thanks.

[cyberpj]

3. Not very encouraging that Dems miss the most votes (list)

And what's up with someone missing almost 25% of voting?

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/house/vote-missers/

[AllegroRondo]

6. Some of that is not intentional

remember, Repubs run the show and get to decide when votes are held. They will hold them in the wee hours of the morning if they think it will make Dems miss the vote and get a contentious bill passed.

[cyberpj]

4. This is EXCELLENT. Thankyou! You can even click on an individual and

see how they voted on a bunch of stuff.

I'll be using this A LOT - and it should come in really handy during elections!

Like the category - "late night votes" too. Good stuff.

[AZBlue]

5. So useful!! Thank you for posting!

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. Wonderful - I've been wanting something like this. Now it willl be easier

to see how the ACTIONS match - or don't match - the WORDS. Also good ammunition to promote good reps and expose bad or corrupt ones.

[IndyOp]

8. THIS explains why we can't win any damn votes --

18 of the Top 20 vote MISSERS are DEMS --
<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/house/vote-missers/>

:wtf:

Leonard Boswell 144 23.7% IA 3 Democrat
Juanita Mil-McD 114 18.8% CA 37 Democrat
Rubén Hinojosa 102 16.8% TX 15 Democrat
Luis Gutiérrez 92 15.3% IL 4 Democrat
Corrine Brown 91 15.0% FL 3 Democrat
John Lewis 91 15.0% GA 5 Democrat
Bill Young 87 14.3% FL 10 Republican
Alcee Hastings 87 14.3% FL 23 Democrat
Pete Stark 86 14.1% CA 13 Democrat
Jim Davis 84 13.8% FL 11 Democrat
Silvestre Reyes 81 13.3% TX 16 Democrat
Edolphus Towns 80 13.2% NY 10 Democrat
Donald Payne 71 11.7% NJ 10 Democrat
Chaka Fattah 71 11.7% PA 2 Democrat
William Delahunt71 11.7% MA 10 Democrat
Pete Sessions 68 11.2% TX 32 Republican
Robert Andrews 68 11.2% NJ 1 Democrat
Ted Strickland 66 10.9% OH 6 Democrat
Jane Harman 64 10.5% CA 36 Democrat
Gregory Meeks 63 10.4% NY 6 Democrat

:wtf: