Added DC office fax numbers to the Congress Members report.

Updated contact information of more than 150 Congress members.  This data is now available through our Congress Members report.  The report will be enhanced in mid-Februrary to include the DC office fax numbers.

Database updated for 110th Congress.

Additional Group Unity Scores (GUS) tool enhancements: roll call numbers of votes "ignored" (excluded from the GUS score calculation) for whatever reason are now available.  More ...

Group Unity Scores (GUS) tool now provides access to the roll call numbers of the votes included in the GUS score calculation. More ...

vis.org site search added. The search, provided by Google, also searches the advocacy groups' descriptions of votes and bills.

Database correction: William Lipinski was incorrectly listed as the representative of Illinois district 3. He was replaced by his son Dan Lipinski starting January 1, 2005.

Restored the 2005 House votes listed below. Members who answered "present" during the votes are listed as such. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused!

Temporarily removed the following 2005 House votes from vis.org: 
135, 137, 145, 148, 161, 162, 175, 239, 261, 270, 349, 361, 363, 381, 396, 397, 402, 419, 440, 441, 446, 447, 448, 449, 487, 504, 521, 540, 548, 590, 591, 608.

The Congress members who answered "present" during these votes were incorrectly listed as "not voting."

Congress Member Report - can now include the members who were in office on a specific date (as opposed to only currently serving members).

Position Report - added the ability to enter a title and a description of each report "item." The report item title and description are also saved in the XML file (see below).