About TallyHQ
Congress, on the record — a GitHub-style activity tracker for the US Congress.
TallyHQ pulls the public record of what members of Congress actually do — every roll-call vote, every bill introduced or cosponsored, every party-line break, every floor speech — from official government sources, attributes it to each member, and renders it as a daily activity feed. The aim is a plain, browsable record: who is doing what on Capitol Hill, without a take attached.
What the feed measures
- Roll-call votes — every recorded House and Senate vote, with party-by-party tallies and break-vote highlighting.
- Bills — sponsorship, cosponsorship, and the stage-coded action timeline for each bill.
- Floor speeches — Congressional Record entries attributed to the speaking member.
- Context — committee assignments, Cook PVI district lean, lobbying-disclosure activity, and campaign-finance totals, where official data exists.
It does not measure influence, effectiveness, or intent. Activity volume is not a quality score — a member with a quiet grid is not necessarily doing less, and the feed should not be read as a ranking of merit.
Data sources
Everything on TallyHQ traces back to a primary government or public source. Nothing is editorialized, scored, or hand-entered.
| Source | What it provides |
|---|---|
| clerk.house.gov | House roll-call votes |
| senate.gov | Senate roll-call votes |
| govinfo.gov BILLSTATUS | Bill metadata, sponsors, cosponsors, action history |
| govinfo.gov CREC | Floor speeches (Congressional Record) |
| api.congress.gov | Amendments and bill enrichment |
| lda.senate.gov | Lobbying disclosures |
| api.open.fec.gov | Campaign-finance totals |
| unitedstates/congress-legislators | Member roster, committee assignments, ID crosswalks |
| unitedstates/images | Member portraits |
| en.wikipedia.org | Cook Partisan Voting Index per district and state |
Accuracy & disclaimer
TallyHQ is an independent, non-commercial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for the United States Congress, any member or office, or any government agency.
The data is aggregated automatically from the sources above and refreshed daily. Upstream sources can be delayed, revised, or incomplete, and the matching that links records to members and bills is automated and imperfect — lobbying-activity matches in particular are best-effort and surfaced with a confidence filter. TallyHQ is provided as-is, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. For anything consequential, verify against the primary source before relying on it.
Found something wrong? Open an issue — corrections are welcome.
Who maintains it
TallyHQ is built and maintained by Bryan Bartley. The source is on GitHub.