{"id":808,"date":"2005-12-13T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2005\/12\/13\/new-from-the-washington-post-votes-database\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:37:39","slug":"new-from-the-washington-post-votes-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2005\/12\/13\/new-from-the-washington-post-votes-database\/","title":{"rendered":"New from the Washington Post: Votes Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has created the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/congress\/\">U.S. Congress Votes Database<\/a>, which covers  every vote in the since the 102nd Congress (1991). No only can you search by state, region and gender, you can also search by &#8220;baby-boomer status&#8221; and even astrological sign (really!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more from the press release:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">&#8220;The data for washingtonpost.com&#8217;s U.S. Congress Votes Database is taken  directly from several official Internet sources:<\/span> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">House vote data comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/\">Web site of  the Clerk of the House of Representatives<\/a>.  <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Senate vote data comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/\">Web site of  the Senate<\/a>.  <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Member biographical information, including birth dates and hometowns, comes  from the <a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/\">Biographical Directory of the  United States Congress<\/a>.  <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Member gender information comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/congresswomen\/alpha.asp\">Women in Congress  site<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/briefing\/women_senators.htm\">Women  in the Senate page<\/a>.  <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Representatives&#8217; district information comes from the Library of Congress&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/\">THOMAS site<\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">For each congressional vote in each chamber beginning with the 102nd Congress  (1991), the Post has assembled detail and summary information about that vote  and the members who took part. In addition to displaying the details of every  vote, washingtonpost.com calculates a majority position for Republicans and  Democrats, if one exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">The Post uses additional sources for certain types of summary information.  For the vote totals by region, regional definitions from the U.S. Census Bureau  are employed. For totals by &#8220;Baby Boomer&#8221; status, the Post defines Baby Boomers  as those born between the end of World War II (Aug. 1, 1945) through Dec. 31,  1964, inclusive. Vote totals by astrological sign are calculated using each  member&#8217;s date of birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Statistics on most-voted on bills include votes in both the House and Senate  for a two-year Congress. Late-night votes are defined as those occurring between  midnight and 7 a.m.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:gray\">Posted by Tami Smith to <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/news\/govdocs\/2005\/12\/new-from-washington-post-votes.html\">gov docs<\/a> at 12\/13\/2005 06:40:00 AM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has created the U.S. Congress Votes Database, which covers every vote in the since the 102nd Congress (1991). No only can you search by state, region and gender, you can also search by &#8220;baby-boomer status&#8221; and even <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2005\/12\/13\/new-from-the-washington-post-votes-database\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  New from the Washington Post: Votes Database<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}