About
US Congress vs Voters shows how members of the House and Senate vote, and how those votes compare with what people where they live told independent surveys.
Why
Many sites track how Congress votes. Fewer show whether those votes match what constituents want. When independent surveys ask people about the same bills Congress votes on, the two can be put side by side, state by state and district by district. This site does that, openly and the same way for everyone.
Our rules
- Same treatment for every member and party. The same methods, wording and design apply to everyone. Votes are shown by shape, not party colors.
- Public sources only. Every figure comes from official records or published surveys, listed on the Sources page with links to the originals.
- Several surveys, shown side by side. We never blend sources into one score.
- Uncertainty shown. When a survey can't tell what most people want, we say it's too close to call rather than guess.
- No judgment on votes. Voting against a majority can be a principled choice. We show the comparison; readers decide what it means.
- No tracking. No accounts, no cookies, no advertising. See Privacy.
Open source
Everything that produces this site is public: the code that downloads and checks each source, the methods that estimate opinion, the rules that match survey questions to votes, and every special case we've handled. Read it, check it, or reuse it: source code. The full technical notes on each data source are in DATA_SOURCES.md. The code is published under the GNU Affero General Public License v3: anyone may reuse it, and anyone who runs a changed version as a public site must publish their changes too. Suggestions and corrections are welcome as issues; every change is reviewed before it's made.
Independence
This is an independent civic project. It isn't affiliated with the U.S. government, Congress, any political party or campaign, or any of the survey organizations whose work it uses.
Contact and corrections
If you find an error, we want to fix it: write to corrections (at) uscongressvsvoters.org. For anything else, see the Contact page.