Ask in plain words — how has my representative been voting, has anything for veterans actually passed — and get an answer with the tables and charts behind it. Sign in with Google to start.
Each answer is worked out from the record this site keeps of Congress. A question each kind of answer starts from:
From the record, not from memory. The numbers in an answer — the votes, the counts, the bills — come out of the same copy of Congress's own publications every page here is built from, and each answer shows the table or chart behind it.
It describes; it never advises. It will tell you what your representative did, never whether to vote for them, or which party is better.
It asks when a question could mean two things, and says where to look next when it cannot answer.
Why a sign-in. Each person gets 100 questions a day, and your conversations are kept for you to come back to. What is kept, and how to delete it, is in the privacy policy; how answers are made is on How we make this.
The common questions each have a page of their own: