Sources for Congressional Voting Records

Looking for records as to how each member of Congress voted on a particular bill in a useful format? In another great conversation on the ProgressiveExchange [4]discussion list (have I mentioned recently how much I love that list?), the community talked about the available sources. Daniel Atwood of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America [5] was kind enough to post a summary of the responses, in the form a huge number of sources of this data. I've cribbed from and adapted his summary below...

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ [6]
A votes database going back to 1991 that lets you sort by everything including astrological sign

http://www.govtrack.us/ [7]
An independent site that brings together information on the status of all federal legislation, voting records, and other congressional data, with available email updates and RSS/Atom feeds

http://www.opencongress.org/ [8]
See how lawmakers voted on any bill in the 110th Congress

http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm [9]
Project Vote Smart collects data on key votes, along with stated positions of politicians on key issues

http://progressivepunch.org [10]
Votes on progressive issues broken down by issue area

http://maplight.org/ [11]
Get more info on the connection between money and votes

http://clerk.house.gov/ [12]
The official data provided by the government for the US House. The vote records are XML files, and so can be easily opened using Excel 2003 or later, or viewed by writing your own XML stylesheets

http://voteview.com [13]
For those looking for actual raw data

http://vis.org/ [14]
Vote data available in a parse-able format for a small fee.