How To Keep Track Of Politicians’ Voting Track Records, A Guide

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Where to look:

The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have their own websites where you can check what bills are being voted on, but it can be a nightmare to navigate THOMAS or other government databases. Certainly, they don’t make it easy. Thankfully we have great organizations dedicated to keeping track of how your elected official is voting.

Here are the ones I’ve found to be extremely helpful, if I miss a real good one, let me know.

1) Project Vote Smart (www.votesmart.org) — This organization is by far the bests at keeping excellent track of how your elected official is voting. The website is simple to navigate and you can get all these great info:

Voting track record on the issues
Speeches and public statements
Interest groups ranking
Campaign financing
Issue positions
Bios
and more.

2) The Washington Post (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress) — Certainly, the Post is using a great database to keep voting track records. Here is what you will find there:

Voting track record
Positions held
Financial disclosure report
Key votes record
Missed votes
Voting with party
Latest votes
Bios
and more

3) League of Conservation Voters (www.lcv.org) — These folks go out of their way to tell you how members of Congress have voted on environmental issues. They keep a scorecard on each of them and they keep a list, “The Dirty Dozen” that should be voted out in the next election. Here is what you will find:

Scorecards
Lists of evildoers
and more
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/12/19/how-to-keep-track-of-politicians-voting-track-records-a-guide/

A lot of the article is common sense. However using the listed sites, one can keep up with quite a few things about a Senator or Representative. They are much easier to use than government sites, and they keep track of things such as 'voting with the party' and 'speeches and public statements.' These are items that are greatly informative about what an elected official is really up to.

[Jamastiene]

1. Thank you.

At least one of those is something I really want to go look at right now. The other will be good for future use. Bookmarking.