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Who's my Representative?
To find your state representative and senator, try a tool like this one from Open:States:
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Common Cause - Find Your Lawmaker to find representatives at both state and federal levels
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Inside.Gov
Voting Records
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window Covers abstracts and indexing for hearings, reports, documents and committee prints.
- Congressional Record daily (through HeinOnline) 1980+The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session.
- House Roll Call Votes 1990+ Senate Roll Call Votes1989+ Choose ‘Legislation & Records’, then ‘Votes’. U.S. Congress.
- See also: CQ Magazine, which has listings of recent House and Senate votes
- PolitiFactA Pulitzer Prize–winning fact-checking website run by reporters and editors at The Tampa Bay Times. About 18 states have their own versions (Massachusetts is not among them.).
- Political Galaxy provides biographies and addresses; issue positions and speeches; voting records; campaign finances; and evaluations by special interests.
- GovTrack.us(formery OpenCongress) publishes the status of federal legislation and information about individual representatives and senators in Congress. In addition to tracking bills, this site built in 2004 by Joshua Tauberer provides statistical analyses, bill summaries,"and other tools to put information in context'.
- See here for an outline of data sources from 1789-present.
Voting Records - Massachusetts Legislature
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has an extensive site, Mass.Gov, that links to and pages. Profiles of each legislator include Bills and Laws they have sponsored or co-sponsored.
...or try a special interest site like one of these:
- Progressive Massachusetts
- MassFiscal.org Scorecard
