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Find who represents you. See their recorded votes.
Enter your ZIP to find your members of Congress, then see recorded votes with links to the official source. Add a full address only when a ZIP crosses House districts.
Enter a 5-digit ZIP to see your senators and possible House district. If that ZIP crosses districts, you can add your full address for an exact match where verified boundaries are installed.
Start with a ZIP to see possible districts. Add street, city, state, and ZIP for an exact House result where we have the district maps.
How to use this Five short steps
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- Find your representative. Type your ZIP code, or your full street address for your exact House district. A ZIP alone can list more than one possible district; an address narrows it to one. Nothing you type is stored.
- See how they voted. Pick a topic tile, or search plain words like "roads," "rent," "obamacare," "border," or "gas prices." You do not need to know the bill number. Each vote card names the official bill or question and shows a big Yea / Nay / Present / Not voting badge for each of your officials. Covered cards also say what the bill really does, who is affected, and the practical benefits and tradeoffs.
- Answer first, then compare. Look for "How would YOU vote?" on a card and pick Yea or Nay before your representative's actual position is revealed. A running agreement score then shows up next to their name. Your answer is anonymous — it isn't tied to your name.
- Share a card. Hit Share on any vote to make a picture of how your representative voted — good for texting or posting.
- Check the evidence yourself. Open "The context" on any card for the chamber, date, result, and whether it was a procedural vote or a vote on the bill itself. Every vote links out to the official government record, plus this tool's own dated, locally archived copy from the day it was captured — so the numbers don't quietly drift if a government page changes later.
This is an information tool, not election administration or legal advice. A ZIP alone never proves an exact House district.
How this tool works Three 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. Only the map point it sends back is checked against our district maps. The address itself is not stored.
- 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.
What some of these words mean Plain-English glossary
Roll call
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.
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.
Step 3 · Official recorded votes
Search this Congress for your selected officials.
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.
How these ten were picked
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.
Track accountability
Hot topics and upcoming votes.
Most watched now
Recent important votes
Upcoming / watch next
Congress this week
Committee meetings & hearings.
What's being voted on soon
When they're meeting
Future vote alerts
Ask to follow the officials you selected.
This saves your interest for a future per-representative alert service. It does not turn on automatic emails yet.
Select a state or verified district first so the request can name the officials you want to follow.
Data plan
Fast later means local data, not live guessing.
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, and it does not claim to be politically neutral.