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Read our original research in our <a href="/misconduct">legislator misconduct database</a> and weekly <a href="/posts">posts on what’s coming up and what just happened in Congress</a>.</p> <p>We also added a new <a href="https://substack.govtrack.us/">newsletter about executive orders and other actions by the President and the White House</a>.</p> <p>You can read more about <a href="/about-our-data">the data we have</a>, including how you can get it. GovTrack was the first to create comprehensive open data about Congress, and we have successfully lobbied Congress to make more and better legislative information available to the public.</p> <h2><span>Who we are</span></h2> <p>GovTrack.us is a project of <a href="http://www.civicimpulse.com">Civic Impulse, LLC</a>, a completely independent entity which is wholly owned by its operator and receives no funding in any form from outside organizations. We have no financers, sponsors, investors, or partners, nor do we have any affiliation or relationship (financial or otherwise) with any political party, government agency, or any other outside group or persons, other than our subscribers and advertisers.</p> <p>We pay our operating costs through our advertising revenue (<a href="/advertising">read our ad policy</a>) and crowdfunding (<a href="https://www.patreon.com/govtrack">support us on Patreon</a>; see our past Kickstarters in <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1872382405/govtrack-insider/posts/1475289">2015</a> and <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/govtrack/alert-new-executive-order">2025</a>).</p> <p>GovTrack.us began tracking the U.S. Congress in 2004 and inspired the world-wide open government and open government data movements. We have <a href="https://medium.com/@govtrack/govtrack-testimony-in-house-committee-hearing-on-transparency-and-modernizing-congress-545ae8cdb5f4">testified before Congress</a> multiple times about our work and how to make Congress a more open institution. In 2025 we began tracking the White House.</p> <p>We’re a small organization with a few part-time staff members including:</p> <table id="staff-table"> <tr valign="top"> <td> <img class="staffer-photo" src="/static/images/staff/josh.jpeg"> </td> <td> <p class="staffer-name"><a href="https://razor.occams.info">Joshua Tauberer</a>, president</p> <p>Joshua is the founder of GovTrack.us and created the site initially as a hobby in 2004. He is a software engineer and entrepreneur that has also been a contractor for the United States Congress and the District of Columbia municipal government on improving the publication process of the law. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td> <img class="staffer-photo" src="/static/images/staff/amy.jpeg"> </td> <td> <p class="staffer-name">Amy West, research & communications manager</p> <p>Amy has been the GovTrack research and communications manager since February 2017 when she realized she didn't want to retire quite so early after all. She edits GovTrack Insider articles, posts to GovTrack social media and developed the <a href="/misconduct">Congressional Misconduct Database</a>. From 1999-2015, she was a librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries specializing in government publications and government data.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </section> <section class="col-md-offset-1 col-sm-5" style="font-size: 15px;"> <div class="card bg-info"> <div class="card-body"> <h3 style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 1em;">Our Charter</h3> <p>1. GovTrack.us’s mission is to help Americans participate in their government.</p> <ul> <p>a. We make information about the United States Congress and the actions of its senators, representatives, and delegates, and official actions by the President and the White House, accessible and actionable for voters, professionals, students, and others.</p> <p>b. We do this by putting the information in context, tracking new developments, helping our users take meaingful action, and seeking out new information and new ways to analyze and explain that information.</p> </ul> <p>2. We are committed to integrity.</p> <ul> <p>a. We know that government decisions have grave consequences, and so we carry out our work respectfully and responsibly.</p> <p>b. We strive to report what’s happening fairly and accurately. We won’t take sides on policies or politicians — except policies that further or hinder our mission as described in this charter.</p> <p>c. We do not accept grants from or have any relationship with partisan organizations. Our advertising space is made available to advertisers without regard to political views.</p> </ul> <p>3. We are committed to democracy.</p> <ul> <p>a. We believe that transparency and education are crucial for achieving equity in rights and representation for all Americans.</p> <p>b. We believe that the best outcomes can be achieved not only with an informed public but also with a government that has the capacity to make informed decisions.</p> <p>d. We love the legislative branch (i.e., Congress). That’s why we think about it so much. Our federal government works best when Congress acts as a check on presidential power.</p> </ul> </div> </div> </section> </div> <h2><span>Our timeline</span></h2> <style> #timeline td { padding-bottom: .66em; line-height: 115%; vertical-align: top; } #timeline strong, #timeline span { margin-right: 1em; } #timeline strong { /* years */ } #timeline em { /* feature headings */ margin-right: .25em; } #timeline span { /* feature text */ font-size: 95%; } #timeline img { border: none; background: url("/static/timeline-sprite.png"); background-position-x: 50%; width: 300px; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: .66em; } @media screen and (max-width: 768px) { #timeline img { width: 40vw; } } </style> <table id="timeline"> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -10px; height: 100px;"></td> <td> <strong>2004</strong> <span>We launched!</span> <em>Bill status alerts by email</em> <span>GovTrack launched in 2004 with our most fundamental feature: email alerts for legislation and lawmakers you care about.</span> <em>Ideology scores</em> <span>Our first data analysis, <a href="/about/analysis#ideology">Ideology Scores</a> put legislators on a chart from conservative to liberal based on their sponsorship of legislation.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -155px; height: 95px;"></td> <td> <strong>2005</strong> <em>Downloadable raw data</em> <span>In support of other civic tech projects, we shared our downloadable data and, later, an API, for others to use to create new apps and research projects.</span> <em>Congressional district maps</em> <span>It was one of the first “Google Maps mashups” and the first interactive street-level map of congressional districts on the internet, our congressional district maps help you find your representative. (These days our maps use MapBox technology — thanks MapBox for the discount!)</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td/> <td> <strong>2006</strong> <em>Committee assignments</em> <span>Our early years were spent gathering more and more legislative information into one place, including legislators’ committee assignments.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td/> <td> <strong>2007</strong> <em>Asked Congress for open data</em> <span>We went to the U.S. Capitol to <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?197994-1/transparency-house-representatives">ask Congress for open legislative data</a>.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -670px; height: 90px;"></td> <td> <strong>2008</strong> <em>Paragraph-level bill permalinks</em> <span>Bills can be thousands of pages long — use our paragraph-level links, launched in 2008, to bring your followers directly to the part of the bill you care about (<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1628/text/pcs#link=II_C_231&nearest=H0F8893F97D3F48609D1A3017326A281A">example</a>).</span> <em>Compare bill versions</em> <span>Bills can change lots during the legislative process. We give you a way to see those changes. <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s151/text#compare=is">Here’s</a> a comparison of the introduced and passed versions of the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td/> <td> <strong>2009</strong> <em>It’s official</em> <span>In 2009, we formed Civic Impulse LLC, a company in the District of Columbia.</span> <em>Senate creates open data for voting records</em> <span>Following our path, the Senate began publishing <a href="https://archives.cjr.org/campaign_desk/senate_goes_xml.php">open data for votes</a>.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td/> <td> <strong>2010</strong> <em>Incorporated into the <a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/content/whip-hoyer-announces-demcom-40%E2%80%94major-upgrade-official-house-democratic-intranet">House Democrats’ intranet</a></em> <span>Our open data became a part of the House Democrats’ internal tool for keeping their caucus informed.</span> <em>Videos</em> <span>As an experiment that ran from 2010-2013, we created some videos explaining legislative issues. However, videos turned out to be unfeasibly labor-intensive to make.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -765px; height: 105px;"></td> <td> <strong>2012</strong> <em>Advanced search</em> <span>Search by stage of the legislative process, or sponsor, or Congress, or a variety of other factors using our <a href="https://govtracknews.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/new-faceted-bill-search/">advanced search</a>.</span> <em>Prognosis</em> <span>We <a href="https://govtracknews.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/even-better-bill-prognosis-now-with-real-probabilities/">began</a> publishing estimates of the <a href="http://localhost:8000/about/analysis#prognosis">likelihood of bill passage</a> in 2012 using a novel methodology we invented. (Later, for some years, we published the scores of <a href="https://www.skoposlabs.com/">Skopos Labs</a>.) In 2016, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9Hk&feature=youtu.be&t=797">Last Week Tonight with John Oliver</a> mentioned it.</span> <em>Experimental state legislation tracking</em> <span>We try lots of things, but they don’t always work out. It turned out that there’s just too much content and variation to realistically track all 50 states. We ended this feature in 2015.</span> <em>Link to laws referenced in bills</em> <span>We began incorporating links to the U.S. Code and previously passed bills to simplify the process of understanding proposed bills. (<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2170/text">example</a>)</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -1010px; height: 60px;"></td> <td> <strong>2013</strong> <em>Legislator report cards</em> <span>Extending the legislator statistics we started with in 2004, the <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2019">report cards</a> are much more expansive and give a more nuanced view of each legislator.</span> <em>Original bill summaries</em> <span>We began including the Library of Congress’s bill summaries in 2008, but we began writing our own in 2013. (<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr3979">example</a>) We also included lightly edited summaries from the Republican Policy Committee from 2013-2018. Unfortunately, Democrats did not have a similar site to copy from, and the Republicans have stopped publishing theirs.</span> <em>1,000,000 users in a month</em> <span>In January 2013, 1 million users visited our site — a record.</span> <em>Seen on TV!</em> <span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4vDumBJJwA">The McLaughlin Group</a> and <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#52933505">The Rachel Maddow Show</a> both mentioned our work.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -275px; height: 58px;"></td> <td> <strong>2015</strong> <em>GovTrack Insider</em> <span>After <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1872382405/govtrack-insider">a successful Kickstarter</a>, we created an independent location for our writing about bills and related subjects. Our first article was about a <a href="https://govtrackinsider.com/how-congress-voted-on-trade-afb8b4438823">trade bill</a>. One of our most recent articles was about <a href="https://govtrackinsider.com/who-was-nominated-for-the-congressional-gold-medal-in-2019-8d95097a793a">who Congress nominates for Congressional Gold Medals</a>.</span> <em>Legislator subject areas</em> <span>At a user’s suggestion, we created legislator subject areas based on the bills they sponsor. They’re not always what you might expect.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -335px; height: 90px;"> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -880px; height: 130px;"> </td> <td> <strong>2017</strong> <em>Bill text incorporation</em> <span>Smaller bills are <a href="https://govtracknews.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/how-a-complex-network-of-bills-becomes-a-law-introducing-a-new-data-analysis-of-text-incorporation/">often passed as part of larger packages</a>. Tracing that path can be very difficult. This feature simplifies that process for you. It also lets us give legislators credit where due that would otherwise be hidden by procedure. Here’s a link to <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1865">one bill</a> which we show incorporates 89 other bills.</span> <em>Advocacy organization rankings</em> <span>People often go to organizations that support their views to find out which politicians they believe work to their benefit. We’ve gathered a number of major advocacy organizations’ ratings of legislators so you can see them all together.</span> <em>Congressional Misconduct Database</em> <span>Congress mostly polices itself and has done so since 1789. We have gathered what we believe is the only database of all instances of <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/misconduct">Congressional Misconduct</a>.</span> <em>Fact check goes national</em> <span>Our fact-check of President Trump’s bogus claim that he signed more legislation than anyone — in fact, it was the least — made national news.</span> <em>Four team members</em> <span>In 2017 we increased the size of our team to four regular team members.</span> <em>1,500,000 users in a month</em> <span>In January 2017, just under 1.5 million users visited our site and 9.7 million people visited our site that year — a record.</span> <em>End of our open data</em> <span>Happily, we were able to retire our open data and API because <a href="http://fedscoop.com/congress-makes-bill-status-open-to-public">Congress created their</a> own and other organizations created similar APIs.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -430px; height: 66px;"></td> <td> <strong>2018</strong> <em>Pronunciation guide</em> <span>Perhaps you too had thought that former Rep. Goodlatte’s name was pronounced like the coffee drink. It is not. Our guide can be very helpful if you’re calling your representative for the first time!</span> <em>Our 500,000th registered user</em> <span>The 500,000th person to sign up for email updates registered this year.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="background-position-y: -510px; height: 140px;"></td> <td> <strong>2019</strong> <em>Testified before Congress</em> <span>On May 10, 2019, GovTrack.us founder Joshua Tauberer <a href="https://medium.com/@govtrack/govtrack-testimony-in-house-committee-hearing-on-transparency-and-modernizing-congress-545ae8cdb5f4">testified</a> before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress on the subject of transparency.</span> <em>Bill study guides</em> <span>Every bill page now features a unique set of questions to help you understand the bill, under the “study guides” tab. These questions can be used in the classroom to guide discussion about a bill, or can be helpful templates for what to ask when you call your representatives.</span> <em>Impeachment.guide</em> <span>We launched a spin-off site <a href="https://Impeachment.guide">Impeachment.guide</a> to track the chronology and charges in the impeachment of President Trump.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td/> <td> <strong>2020</strong> <em>Instagram videos</em> <span>We joined Instagram (as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/govtrack.us/">@govtrack.us</a>) and began posting videos in our <i>A Bill a Minute</i> series.</span> <em>COVID-19 in Congress</em> <span>We began tracking <a href="/covid-19">cases of COVID-19 in Congress</a>.</span> <em>New functionality</em> <span>The enhanced bill cosponsors table shows relevant committee assignments. The site search box got autocomplete. Bill text is updated more often for bills before the House.</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td/> <td> <strong>2021</strong> <em>New functionality</em> <span>The bill cosponsors table got upgraded again with a new potential cosponsors table. 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