Reading an official's profile

Choose a legislator anywhere in CapitolMath — on Elected Officials, among a bill's sponsors, in a roll call — and their profile slides in from the right. Opened from a bill, it stacks on top of the bill's panel, so closing it takes you back to the bill.

The heading#

Their photo, office and name, with a party badge and any leadership position (★ Majority Leader, say). Below, how long they've served and their state. Beside it, where CapitolMath has the state's district map, a small map of the state with their district filled in — ringed when it's too small to see at that size.

At the top, API shows the REST API request that returns this legislator, and Close ✕ closes the panel.

Bio#

The legislator's biography, where there is one. A long one is cut short with Show more ▼.

Voting Record#

Legislators only. It opens with two measures, each ranked against the rest of the state's legislators:

• Sponsor effectiveness — the share of the bills they introduced as primary sponsor that passed, leaving out resolutions and memorials. Ranked only with at least 20 sponsored bills.
• Votes against party — how often they voted against their own party's majority, counted only on roll calls where the two parties' majorities were on opposite sides. Ranked by loyalty, only with at least 50 such votes.

Below them, the Economic Index and Social Index gauges place their record on the 1 (conservative) to 5 (liberal) scale. See Political lean scoring.

Then the bills behind the record, each a link that opens the list of those bills on Legislation:

• Sponsored, with how many.
• Committee votes and Floor votes, kept apart because a member votes on a bill in committee and again on the floor, and those are different votes. Each has Bills voted for, Bills voted against and No vote — roll calls they were recorded at without a yes or no.

In the legislatures listed in Amendments, Amendments offered follows: how many of the legislator's amendments in the session were Adopted or Not adopted (rejected, tabled, ruled out of order or withdrawn), as the bill's own Amendments section counts them. Recommended by committee appears when a committee recommended any the chamber hasn't decided, and Other when any were offered with nothing since, superseded, decided in parts or have no outcome recorded, so every amendment is counted once. Select one to list those amendments, newest first, with the bill, the date and the effect the legislature published, 25 at a time: Show more adds the next ones. Where what CapitolMath shows for the legislature has limits, they're stated above the list. Each amendment opens the bill at that amendment. Switch Session to see an earlier one.

When CapitolMath holds no committee roll calls for a chamber, the panel says No committee roll calls on record for this chamber. rather than showing three zeros, which would read as a member who voted on nothing.

Years in Chamber#

How long they've held their current seat, and since when.

Committees & Positions#

Their committee and caucus memberships, grouped by type, each with their role when it's more than member — Chair, Vice Chair and so on. A committee with a web page links to it.

Contact information#

Their mailing address under Mail, and phone number under Tel — choose it to call from a phone. Under Links: their Official web page, any other pages the record holds for them, and Record history, which shows when CapitolMath recorded each value and what it replaced.

A governor's profile#

A governor (or the President) has no voting record. Their profile shows a Signing record — Bills signed, Bills vetoed and Became law unsigned, each opening those bills — with the indexes worked out from the bills they signed and vetoed, the Terms served, and contact information.