Sites that Use GovTrack Data

GovTrack isn't just a website. It's a reusable database of congressional information put out there for anyone to build new tools out of. We support open knowledge to the limit.

Developers, see the developers page if you want to get your hands on the underlying data behind this site.

Here's a list of websites using data assembled by GovTrack

• OpenCongress: Quite like GovTrack with a focus on social networking-type tools.
• MAPLight.org: Computes correlations between votes and campaign contributions.
• Follow the Oil Money: A money-and-votes site directed at energy and oil.
• WhereABill.org: Follow the progress of a bill through the capitol complex, visually, on a map.
• TheMiddleClass.org: Tracking legislation of significance to the middle class.
• National Journal: Committee Chairmen: An interactive game where you can play musical chairs with the committee leadership of the incoming 111th Congress.
• Filibusted.us: Who is filibustering the most bills? Sunlight Apps for America winner (2009).
• International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
• Congrelate
• LittleSis.org
• Govit: Citizens vote on bills.
• Laws I Like: Vote on bills and post your votes to your profile.
• RepresentedBy: Post your representatives to your profile and keep up with what they're doing.
• WeTheCandidates
• NewBallot: You vote on the same laws Congress is voting on. Every week your representative gets a report on how their constituency wants them to vote.
• VoteReports: Use VoteReports to see if your representatives truly represent you
• Congress111, by Mike Bluestein, has a variety of information on Members of Congress, based in part on GovTrack's database.
• WatchDog.net: Another GovTrack clone with some additional information.
• CongressDB: Analysis of voting records.
• Almost half of the entries to Sunlight Foundation's Apps for America contest used data from GovTrack

Commercial Users?

I've noticed some other places downloading data from GovTrack, but I don't know if it was just for fun or if they're actively using it.

• Congressional Quartery (CQ), a leading for-profit political publication.
• StateSurge, a commercial state and national legislative tracking site.

Interactive District Maps

Our congressional district embeddable Google Maps mash-up is in use at a variety of sites.

NGOs: 1Sky.org, California Democratic Party, ChangeCongress, Ohio Freedom Alliance, WatchDog.net.

Members: Rep. Mary Bono Mack, Rep. Michael Burgess, Rep. John Campbell, Rep. John Carter, Rep. Mike Conaway, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Rep. Bill Foster, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Rep. Sam Johnson, Rep. Ric Keller, Rep. Ron Klein, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Tom Latham, Rep. Don Manzullo, Rep. Mike Michaud, Rep. Gary Miller, Rep. George Radanovich, Rep. Dave Reichert, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. Ed Royce, Rep. John Shadegg, Rep. Michael Turner, Rep. Tim Walberg.

Agencies and Quasi-agencies: Organizing for America and NIH have used the maps.

Campaigns: Jan Donatelli, John Laesch '08