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Every vote in Congress is cast in somebody’s name.

539 people hold a federal seat right now. Find yours, and see what they have done with it.

Find your seatHow this is put together

Both chambers as they currently stand. Nothing here is a projection: a tick is a seat somebody holds today.

What is behind the page

989,110recorded votes, each with how the chamber split
100,931contributions, as the committees filed them
20,966committees behind that money
44provenance entries, each naming its source

Every figure on this site is read from a filing anyone may pull, and says which one.Why this existsEvery source

Who represents you?

Three people hold a federal seat on your behalf — one in the House, two in the Senate. See what they have done with them.

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Where is it closest?

Alaska — U.S. SenateMary Peltola49.4%Dan Sullivan48.3%1.0 points apart · 7 polls in window

How far are they from their district?

NC-100.47more liberal than predictedPat HarriganAgainst the fit through 218 members of the same chamber.

What holds on every page

What the page rests on

  1. SOURCES

    Sources

    Primary documents — filings, floor votes, FEC reports — read as published, not summarized by a third party.

  2. PIPELINE

    Pipeline

    Every record deduplicated and checked against the document it came from before it is shown.

  3. RECORD

    Record

    The seat page itself: one address per member, every figure cited beside it.

How this record gets built

Ingest. Verify. Publish.

The same three stages, repeated for every vote, filing and dollar this site holds. The full 27-step account is at /why.

  1. Ingest

    Every vote, filing, and contribution record starts as a document from an official source — a chamber's roll call, an FEC filing, a state's certified result.

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  2. Verify

    Records are cross-checked and deduplicated against each other before anything is published.

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  3. Publish

    Verified records become the seat page you're reading — nothing here is generated, summarized, or scored.

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Three questions, three kinds of document

What the record can already answer.

Each panel is filled from one class of filing and rotates through the newest of them. Nothing was picked for you: the order is recency and arithmetic.

Who is paying for it?

Ohio — U.S. Senate$9,068,664AgainstBROWN, SHERROD
Purpose
MEDIA PLACEMENT, as filed
Committee
SLF PAC
Type
Independent-expenditure-only committee
Filed
· General election

What has been counted?

Delaware — U.S. SenateDemocratic primary · Chris Coons78.0%nominatedJeff Appelhans10.6%eliminatedMary Louve7.5%eliminatedE. No-Trump Hansen3.9%eliminated1 of 4 on the canvass advanceclosed party primary — a plurality nominates and DE holds no primary runoffState certified canvass, as filed

What are traders paying?

Michigan 4th district54¢last paidSean McCann
Book
54¢ bid · 55¢ ask
Volume
23,197 contracts
Open interest
18,888 contracts
Observed

The wire

The record, 12 days from the election.

How the chambers actually divided, and the newest polls — each dated and linked to the record it was read from. The full wire

Where members broke with their party

  1. Brian K. FitzpatrickR · PA-01

    464of 1901 such votes · 24.4%

  2. Susan M. CollinsR · ME

    461of 1603 such votes · 28.8%

  3. Thomas MassieR · KY-04

    425of 1756 such votes · 24.2%

  4. Lisa MurkowskiR · AK

    416of 1540 such votes · 27.0%

  5. Jared F. GoldenD · ME-02

    374of 1837 such votes · 20.4%

  6. Marie Gluesenkamp PerezD · WA-03

    371of 1879 such votes · 19.7%

How often a member’s recorded vote differed from the majority of their own party on the same roll call, this Congress, ordered by that count and cut at six. A count of positions and not a judgement — nothing here calls it independence or disloyalty. Voting members only, since a delegate is on far fewer roll calls; independents are absent because a member with no party majority has none to differ from.

Most recent votes

  1. PN1129 · Senate47–41Nomination ConfirmedKeith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor
  2. PN1129 · Senate53–47Cloture Motion Agreed toKeith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor
  3. HR9340 · Senate57–43Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedA bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and for other purposes.
  4. HR7008 · Senate53–47Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedA bill to amend chapter 131 of title 5 to require certain restrictions on stocks for Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents, and for other purposes.
  5. SRES852 · Senate47–51Motion to Discharge RejectedA resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

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