Almost everything you'd need to judge an elected official is already public. Roll-call votes are published on Congress.gov. Campaign contributions are filed with the FEC. Stock trades have been disclosed under the STOCK Act since 2012. The problem is that these live in separate systems that were built for reporters and researchers, so answering one question about one senator can take the better part of an hour.
This site puts that material on a single screen. Profiles currently carry committee assignments from the Congressional record and campaign finance pulled live from FEC filings. Voting records and personal financial disclosures are being built next. Until each one is wired to its filing, it is left off the page rather than estimated.
One standard applies to everyone here. We don't endorse candidates, publish opinion pieces, or accept money from anyone we cover. When a donor's industry falls under a committee an official sits on, the profile names the company and says so directly.
I built this site because an official's record is scattered across agencies that don't speak to each other. The votes are public and the donations are public. Lining them up for a single senator still took me most of an hour.
My goal is to cut that hour down to a few seconds, for every person holding federal office, under one standard that doesn't shift with the party. The site is free to use and takes no money from anyone it covers.
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