Congressional research for newsrooms
Who they are, what they sit on, how they vote, who funds them, what they own and trade, where they travel and what they ask taxpayers to fund. One place, every fact linked to the government document it came from.
For news organizations: newspapers, broadcasters, digital newsrooms, wires and their research teams.
Built on the public record, read straight from the source and kept current:
Terms and leadership roles, every committee and subcommittee seat since 2013, background from the Congressional Directory, the ethics record, and cards for everything else Hilltrace knows about them.
Open any card for the full story, and every line for its source.
Every House and Senate roll call with each member's vote and the party split. Every bill since 2013 with its sponsor, cosponsors, official summary, actions, the votes on it, and who lobbied on it.
Find how a member voted on anything in seconds, before the interview, not after.
Campaign money from the FEC: what each campaign raised and spent, PAC money by kind with each PAC's sponsor named, outside spending for and against, and donors grouped by employer and occupation.
Lobbying from the LDA: what lobbyists gave in a member's name, including events and honors paid for that never reach FEC filings, and which organizations lobbied on which bills.
Earmarks: every community project House members asked the Appropriations Committee to fund, who gets the money, and which made it into the bill.
Office spending: what each office spends of its budget on staff, travel, mail, rent and the businesses it pays. Staff are never named.
Financial disclosure reports turned into something you can use: net worth ranges since a member was first elected, every reported stock trade (late filings flagged), and trips private sponsors paid for.
The Stock Tracker shows the stocks members trade most, and trade signals flag trades in industries a member's own committees oversee, each with its reason. Leads to report out, never findings.
Shared and private watchlists with alerts when a member votes, introduces a bill or changes committees, and when a bill you follow moves. Encrypted notes for the desk. CSV exports for the data team.
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