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Referandom is here: Tinder for Congress 🔥

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Methodology

Where the Data Comes From

Every record here comes from an official source of the U.S. Congress: 754 bills with a recorded vote and 552 members of the 119th Congress. The official record always prevails.

Sources

  • Bills

    Titles, sponsors, actions and status come from Congress.gov. Every bill on the site reached a recorded (roll call) vote in the House or the Senate; simple resolutions that only concern one chamber's own business are left out.

  • Summaries

    Bill summaries are written by the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress, and published on Congress.gov. Referandom shows them as published; the one-sentence card text is the summary's first sentence.

  • Votes

    Totals, party breakdowns and every member's position come from the official roll calls of the Clerk of the House and the Senate. When a bill had several roll calls, the page shows the one that decided it (usually final passage).

  • Members

    Names, parties, states and portraits come from Congress.gov and the Congressional Pictorial Directory. Everyone who held a seat this term is listed, including members who resigned or arrived in a special election.

How It Stays Current

  • From the Official Sources, Automatically

    An update reads both chambers' roll call lists, adds every new bill, rebuilds bills that got a new vote, and refreshes the members. No model writes or changes anything in this step.

  • Your Votes

    Yea and Nay counts are the votes of people using Referandom. They are opinions, not a representative sample, and they are always shown apart from how Congress voted.

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