Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
PolicyLens makes Congress’s record explorable
A civic data tool for looking up lawmakers and exploring votes, campaign contributions, laws, and economic trends.
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- U.S. voters tracking lawmakers, legislation, and campaign money
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- For party comparisons, each month is credited by default to whoever held power a year earlier; a slider changes the lag.
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The page describes several ways to inspect the records, including topic and chamber filters and close-vote options. Its comparison views also make their assumptions visible: party control uses a default one-year lag that readers can adjust, while the law-impact view cautions that timing alone does not establish causation. The data section names Voteview, Congress.gov, the FEC, and FRED as sources.
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