Mid-terms: Some Seats Matter More

The U.S. mid-term congressional elections this November will determine which party controls Congress during the next year’s FAA reauthorization process. Republicans are bullish on retaking both the House of Representatives and Senate, while Democrats are fighting hard to protect their razor-thin majorities. That’s the big picture. Of the 536 total congressional seats (including D.C.’s non-voting delegate…more

Vote View

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives. The original Voteview of DOS was developed by Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal at Carnegie-Mellon University between 1989 and 1992.

It’s A Disaster

With the emergence of Coronavirus, we’ve noticed a great deal of Schadenfreude among airport activists across the world. Comments such as “It’s so quiet now. We should have an outbreak like this all the time!” The thing most residents forget is that we actually did twenty years ago. It was called ‘9/11’. If you look

Demos don’t endorse Lamphear or Clark

Against the backdrop of a sharply divided Burien City Council, 34th District Democrats declined on Aug. 10 to endorse either Councilman Stephen Lamphear or his challenger, former Councilwoman Rose Clark. Both candidates appeared to receive the support of a majority of party members who voted; however, a two-thirds majority was required for an endorsement. Lamphear,

GovTrack.us

Tracking the United States Congress GovTrack.us began in 2004 as a project to use technology to make the U.S. Congress more open and accessible. Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics.