Evidence first. Context always.

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Official records establish specific facts, such as who holds a seat or how a member voted. Stated positions quote or summarize an individual’s own materials. Documented affiliations identify a dated membership relationship. Explanatory analysis is labeled separately and requires owner review before publication.

A vote on a procedural motion or a bill with multiple subjects is never automatically translated into a broad policy stance. Read the question, legislation, date, and linked record together.

Missing evidence is information about our research

• Research pending: we have not completed a sufficient source review.
• No public position found in reviewed sources: a completed, dated review did not find a position in its defined source set. It does not mean no position exists.
• Qualified position: the position includes conditions, exceptions, or conflicting evidence that should be read together.

We retain historical statements and dated votes. New evidence does not silently erase an earlier position. Editorial revisions retain the prior published text.

Current coverage

House non-voting delegates and the resident commissioner are shown separately from the 435 voting seats. Independent members retain their party label. Caucus affiliations overlap; membership totals cannot be summed across organizations.

Current representation uses the 119th Congress. The 2026 election map uses the 120th Congress boundaries. Census maps are simplified for display; address lookup uses a spatial boundary query. Election authorities remain the source for ballot and voting information.

Issue research is incomplete, especially challenger platforms. Official record coverage is selective, not an exhaustive vote history. Candidate lists preserve each authority’s certification or unofficial status. New York District 24 has a litigation notice in the certification.

Primary sources

• House Clerk: membership and roll calls
• Senate: current senators and roll calls
• Congress.gov: legislation and Congressional Research Service
• New York Board of Elections
• Pennsylvania: unofficial post-primary candidate report
• North Carolina State Board of Elections
• Census TIGERweb: state and congressional boundaries
• GPO Congressional Pictorial Directory: portraits · reuse information

Supplemental office links and term identifiers use the unitedstates/congress-legislators community dataset and are checked against the official roster. Portraits are government materials unless a source indicates otherwise; unavailable images have a labeled fallback.

Publication & corrections

Structured imports validate identities, seats, sources, and relationships before switching the published snapshot. Inconsistent updates are quarantined; a failed run retains the last successful data. Interpretive drafts remain private until the owner reviews them. A source retrieval date is not an editorial review date.

We do not publish candidate ratings, ideology scores, voting recommendations, polling forecasts, or electoral probabilities. Single-seat scenarios hold all other seats constant and make no claim about how a candidate will vote or which caucus they will join.

The private pilot has an owner-only editorial workspace for reviewing drafts, correcting text, and recovering revisions. Public readers do not need an account after any future public launch.