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Find who represents you. See their recorded votes.
Three easy steps. Find your representatives. Pick what you want to know. Read the answer, with a link to the official record.
Type your street address, city and ZIP code. Your full address is the most accurate: it finds your House member and your two senators. A ZIP code alone finds your two senators, but some ZIP codes are split between House districts, so it cannot always find your House member. We do not store your address.
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How this tool works Short steps
- Start with a 5-digit ZIP. You will see both senators and either one possible House district or a short list of possible districts.
- Add a full street address when the ZIP crosses districts. The address is sent once to the U.S. Census Bureau's address lookup. If the Census map does not have it, the street, city, state and ZIP are sent once to OpenStreetMap's public address search instead. Only the map point that comes back is checked against our district maps. We do not store the address.
- Choose an official and inspect their record. Search and filter the included roll calls, then open the official source for the full record.
This is an information tool, not election administration or legal advice. A ZIP alone never proves an exact House district.
Why this exists: this started from the Undastandable article Who represents you — and how they actually voted. This app goes further: instead of sending people into a confusing record system and hoping they figure it out, it should bring the answer back to them.
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Tap a topic or search plain words people actually use. Bill numbers are still shown for evidence, but the search is built around subjects like housing, health care, immigration, fuel, veterans, taxes, and voting. This is our editor's pick of commonly asked-about topics, not a popularity or controversy ranking.
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Looking for something else? Search any subject in the box above, or look up your own representative to see how they voted on each of these.
How to use this Short steps
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- Step 1. Find your representatives. Type your street address, city and ZIP code, then press "Find my representatives." Your full address finds your House member and your two senators. A ZIP code alone finds your two senators. If you already know a name, type it in the name box instead. We do not save your address.
- Step 2. Pick what you want to know. You will see the names of your representatives and five big buttons: how they voted, whether they kept their promises, who gives them money, how to contact them, or everything on one page.
- Step 3. Read the answer.
- Votes. Search by a plain word like "rent," "border" or "gas prices," or pick a topic. Each card says what the vote was about, what a Yes and a No meant, and how each of your representatives voted. You can say how you would vote first, or skip that.
- Promises. Each campaign promise is marked Kept, Broke, Mixed, Partly tested, or No vote yet. Tap a promise to see the vote behind the mark.
- Money. How much they raised, and how much came from people, from political groups, and from their party.
- Contact. Their Washington office, their offices near you, phone numbers, and their official website.
- Go back any time. The "Back to Step 2" bar stays at the bottom of the screen. "Start over" at the top clears everything.
- Share it, and check it yourself. Press Share on any vote to copy a link or save a picture. Every vote links to the official House or Senate record.
This is an information tool, not election administration or legal advice. A ZIP alone never proves an exact House district.
What some of these words mean Plain-English glossary
District
The area a House representative serves. Each state is split into districts; your home address decides which one is yours.
Yea / Nay
Yes / No. "Present" means they were there but chose neither. "Not voting" means no vote was recorded for them.
Amendment
A proposed change to a bill. Members vote on the change before they vote on the whole bill.
PAC
A political action committee: a group that raises money and gives it to candidates.
Roll call
The official record of how each member voted. An official recorded vote where each member's individual position (Yea, Nay, Present, or Not Voting) is written down and published, instead of a quick voice vote where no one's name is recorded.
Procedural vote
A vote about how business moves through the chamber — ordering debate, cloture, adjourning — not about the underlying policy itself. A "Yea" often means "let's proceed," not "I support the bill."
Markup
A committee meeting where members debate and amend the actual text of a bill line by line before it can move further.
Hearing
A committee meeting where members question witnesses or officials to gather information; it does not itself change a bill's text.
Delegate
A non-voting House member representing a U.S. territory (such as Guam or American Samoa) or Washington, D.C. Delegates can debate and serve on committees but do not cast final floor votes.
Vacancy
A House or Senate seat with no current occupant, usually because the prior member resigned, died, or was expelled, pending a special election or appointment.
At-large
A House district that covers an entire state (or territory) because it has only one U.S. Representative, rather than being divided into multiple districts.
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Coverage is limited to the current 119th Congress. Each vote shown is checked against the official House Clerk and Senate records. It does not cover every past vote. It shows the record the same way for every member, so you can see if your representative votes the way you would.