It's all public. Almost none of it is accessible.
Your representative's voting record is public. Their campaign donors are public. The lobbying groups they align with are public. The executive orders shaping federal policy are public. All of it is technically available to anyone.
But in practice it's buried in government XML feeds, FEC bulk-data files, Federal Register archives, and Senate disclosure databases that take a team of researchers to parse. So the average citizen can't answer even the most basic questions:
- 01How often does my representative skip votes?
- 02Do they vote with their party 95% of the time, or are they actually independent?
- 03Who funded their last campaign, and do their votes reflect it?
- 04Which lobbying groups align most closely with their record?
- 05How many executive orders has this administration signed, and what do they actually do?
PolityLens turns raw legislative data into something structured, searchable, and understandable, and puts it in front of every citizen, for free.
Civic infrastructure. Not a political app.
PolityLens exists to restore accountability through data, not to steer anyone toward a conclusion.
A construction worker in Columbus and a political scientist at Georgetown should both find PolityLens accurate, fair, and useful. Neither should be able to tell which way we vote.
Primary sources only
Congress.gov, the FEC, the Federal Register, the U.S. Census. No third-party interpretations. No editorial filtering.
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No paywalls. No subscriptions. No ads. This data belongs to the public, and access to it should too.
No black boxes
Every score and metric is computed from a documented formula. If you want to verify it yourself, you can.
Coverage across all three branches.
- A full profile for every current House and Senate member
- Complete voting record going back to 1989
- Attendance and engagement trends across their full career
- Campaign finance: PAC money, top donors, employer contributions
- Lobbying alignment: which industries match their voting record
- Sponsored and cosponsored legislation, in plain English
- Committee assignments and leadership roles
- Partisan-divide trends across every Congress since 1989
- How lobbying money moves through the institution as a whole
- Member rankings by attendance, alignment, and engagement
- Polarization trends over time
- Search federal legislation by title or bill number
- Plain-English AI summaries of what each bill actually does
- Full voting breakdown showing how every member voted
- Which members sponsored or cosponsored each bill
- Executive orders from Reagan through the current administration
- Plain-English summaries of each executive order
- Statements of Administration Policy: official positions on legislation
- Cabinet rosters sourced from Senate confirmation votes
- Congressional alignment with each president's stated positions
Nonpartisan by construction.
PolityLens does not endorse candidates, take positions on policy, or editorialize outcomes. Every metric is applied identically regardless of party. A Democrat's lobbying alignment is calculated exactly the same way as a Republican's.
Our AI-generated bill and executive-order summaries follow one strict rule: translate, don't evaluate. We describe what legislation does. We never tell you whether it's good or bad. The record speaks for itself.
Every number traces back to a primary source.
All data comes directly from official U.S. government records. No news articles, no third-party analysis, no crowdsourced data. The full list:
Scoring MethodologyThe exact formulas behind every score: attendance, alignment, lobbying, disclosures, and more. Fully reproducible from these sources.Read the methodology →Start with your address.
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