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VIS Congressional Toolbox is a set of reports you can create using the data in our congressional database. The database these reports are based on is updated about once a month. The last update date is shown on our List of Available Votes page. Report missing or incorrect data. See also Custom Reports at the end of this page.
You must be either a Professional or Educational member of VIS to access the reports on this page.
This is a list all Congress members with their DC contact information in tab-delimited or XML format. By default, you get the currently serving members. Or you can specify a date between now and 1989 and get the members who were in office on that date. The DC contact information for all members is checked at the beginning of each Congress. See also our alphabetical Congress Members Index.
Define a group of Congress members, then get a score for any other member indicating whether he or she voted "with" or "against" the group. If the group consists of the leaders of one party, the score is sometimes referred to as the party unity score. More information. To find out who the leaders of each political party are, visit www.house.gov and www.senate.gov.
Find how many votes each Member of Congress "missed" during a year. Tab-delimited and XML output format for easy import into MS Excel, Access, etc. More information.
Position Report
Make your own congressional scorecard. Enter a number of roll call votes and/or bills introduced in Congress and get a report that will show how each Congress member voted during the votes or whether he or she was an official cosponsor of the bills. You can even specify your "preferred" position on each vote or bill and our system will calculate the percentage (score) of "correct" actions for each member. The report can be saved in tab-delimited or Excel spreadsheet format.
You can also use the order form for this report to enter your own opinions about the legislation considered by Congress and, maybe, have those opinions published in our Congressional Report Cards.
The source of the votes and cosponsorship data used on our Web site and in the above reports is Congressional Record (the official record of everything that happens in the U.S. Congress).
Custom Reports
Can't find the report you need? Request a custom report. We have supplied custom data to a number of academic institutions including The Colorado College, Clemson University, University of Iowa, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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