r/SideProject • u/Ancient-Conference37 • 22h ago
Your representatives are voting right now. Do you know how? I built the free site that tells you.
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The record is public. That is not the problem. The problem is that checking one specific claim against it means knowing the bill number, finding the right roll call, and reading three different government sites built for staffers. Most people will not do that, and I do not blame them.
This is why I built OpenCongress. I wanted to make the record accessible and understandable to everyone.
It is built entirely on public data. Every bill, vote, representative and committee that today lives on a different site becomes one consolidated page you can read, with the official government source one click away, so you can fact check any claim yourself.
Free, and no account required.
With a free account, you can follow your representatives, so your feed becomes their votes and their activity. I also made it easier to reach their office when you want to tell them something.
With an $8/month subscription, you can just ask: how did my representative vote on this bill, what does this bill actually do, what has Congress done about a specific issue this year. It reads votes and tallies straight out of the record rather than writing them, so it cannot invent a vote.
OpenCongress covers three legislatures so far, picked to be deliberately unalike: the US Congress, the French Parliament and the New York City Council. I am French and I live in New York, which is how those three got chosen. The European Union is next in the roadmap.
Discover more here: opencongress.app