Politicians: sources and methods
The Politicians section covers current members of the U.S. House (including delegates and the resident commissioner) and Senate in the 119th Congress (2025–2026). Every record comes from an official government source or, for identifiers, from a public-domain dataset compiled from official sources, and links back to the original. America, in numbers is independent and is not an official government website. Data last updated 2026-10-21.
Sources
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House (member list) and U.S. Senate (senator list)
clerk.house.gov ↗congress-legislators (public domain, compiled from the Biographical Directory of Congress)
github.com ↗Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
clerk.house.gov ↗Library of Congress bill status data via GovInfo (GPO); summaries by the Congressional Research Service
govinfo.gov ↗Federal Election Commission, all-candidates summary files
fec.gov ↗Official portraits from the GPO Congressional Pictorial Directory (public domain), via the unitedstates/images project
github.com ↗Votes
Votes are shown exactly as each chamber records them: Yea or Nay (Aye or No on some House votes), Present, Not Voting, and other official entries such as a name in the election of the Speaker. Counts group Aye with Yea and No with Nay. Only recorded roll-call votes are included; voice votes have no individual record. Percentages are shares of the roll calls held while the member was serving, so members who joined mid-Congress are not counted against votes held before they took office.
Each vote is labeled by type from its official question. Only a passage vote is a vote on the measure itself; the others are not a vote for or against it.
- Passage: A vote to pass a bill or joint resolution, adopt a resolution, or agree to a final version reconciled with the other chamber.
- Amendment: A vote on whether to change the text of a measure.
- Nomination: A Senate vote on whether to confirm a presidential nominee.
- Cloture: A Senate vote on whether to end debate on a measure or nomination.
- Procedural: A vote on how or when business is considered, such as motions to table, recommit, proceed or order the previous question. It is not a vote on the measure itself.
- Veto override: A vote on whether to override a presidential veto.
- Speaker election: The House’s election of its Speaker.
- Quorum call: A count of the members present.
- Other: A vote of another kind; see the official question.
Definitions follow the Senate glossary and the Congress.gov legislative glossary.
Legislation
Sponsored measures are those a member introduced as primary sponsor; cosponsored measures are those they signed on to, with the date and whether they were an original cosponsor. Status comes from recorded actions: passing one chamber is shown as such and is not described as becoming law. Summaries are written by the Congressional Research Service; where none exists, only the official title and status are shown.
Campaign finance
Figures are the FEC’s summary totals for each member’s authorized campaign committees per two-year election cycle. Members are matched to FEC records by candidate ID, and each record must match the member’s current office and state; if no record can be verified, no figures are shown. Outside spending (such as independent expenditures by super PACs) is not money given to a campaign and is not included. Individual contributors are not shown: FEC rules restrict using contributor names and addresses for commercial purposes, so this site uses only aggregate totals.
Public positions
Positions will be added only from attributable primary sources, with their date and a link. They are never assigned from party affiliation, individual votes or automated inference.
Updates
The data refreshes automatically twice a week. A source that is temporarily unavailable keeps its previous data, and the update date above shows when each source last refreshed. A missing figure is shown as unavailable, never as zero.