The proof
Don't trust me.
Check the record.
A campaign that asks you to take it on faith isn't worth much. So this is the opposite: a live tally of who holds power, what they say, and how they actually vote — built from the public record, kept current, and turned on our own side first.
Counted by hand, from the official roster.
We pulled the roster ourselves: 1,571 current and former members, across 6,874terms in office. Here's who's in charge today.
We line up the words against the votes.
The most useful thing a record can do is put what someone said next to how they voted, and let you judge whether those are the same person. We've matched hundreds of these pairs, and we never call a single one a contradiction until a human has checked it. The machine finds the candidate; a person renders the verdict. You decide.
What they said
Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 1333 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 1333 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of…
How they voted
A recorded vote on the matching bill, the same day they spoke. We show both and leave the judgment to you.
We throw out our own data when it doesn't hold up.
We watch the news for mentions of the people we track. But a name match isn't proof — plenty of stories turn out to be about a different person who happens to share a name. So every mention gets checked, and roughly one in six gets thrown out. What survives is what we're willing to stand behind.
From raw mention to confirmed
148 confirmed across 64 people
Alaska Division of Elections disqualifies challenger to U . S . Sen . Dan Sullivan with same name
Dan Sullivan · newsminer.com
GOP leader provides McConnell update after recent hospitalization
John Thune · ketv.com
GOP leader provides McConnell update after recent hospitalization
John Thune · wlky.com
GOP leader provides McConnell update after recent hospitalization
John Thune · wxii12.com
Thune Pushes Stand - Alone FISA Renewal Despite Trump Push to Tie It to SAVE America Act
John Thune · breitbart.com
GOP leader provides McConnell update after recent hospitalization
John Thune · wlwt.com
Where the record stops, we say so.
No verdicts yet
The say-versus-vote pairs are found but unjudged. Calling one a contradiction is a human's job, and we haven't done it yet.
No outlet grades
We confirm a story is real before we trust it, but we don't yet rate how reliable each outlet is. That's next.
A recent slice
The news here is a few weeks deep, not years. It shows what's happening now, not the whole history.
The one promise that holds it up
The same rules for everyone, and our own side first.
The day this record bends toward a side is the day it stops being worth anything. So it tracks the whole field by one standard, and before it's ever turned on someone we're running against, it's turned on us.