POPVOX Data / Explorers

Explore connected public records.

Find lawmakers, staff, committees, hearings, witnesses, spending and disclosures across public sources. We collect and connect records published by Congress.gov, GovInfo, the House, the Senate, committees and disclosure systems. Source links and coverage notes help you understand what each record can tell you.

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These collections focus on the US Congress and federal disclosures. Publication and collection can be incomplete or delayed; parsing and matching can introduce errors. Records are not uniformly verified. POPVOX is not an official product of Congress. Contribute a correction.

Congress-wide

Explorers across Congress.

Start with the people and public records that connect work across the House and Senate, then follow the relationships between lawmakers, staff, witnesses, legislation, and public filings — every profile built from official published sources.

Public records | House and Senate

Congressional Staff Explorer

Find House and Senate staff names, offices, titles, and public role history inferred from disbursement records.

Open Congressional Staff Explorer

Public disclosure | Federal LDA

Registered Lobbyist Explorer

Search public LDA records by lobbyist, client, registrant, filing period, and covered government position.

Open Registered Lobbyist Explorer

Public disclosure | Federal FARA

FARA Explorer

Search registrants, short-form agents, foreign principals, represented countries, and official DOJ filing documents.

Open FARA Explorer

Public records | Reports to Congress

Executive Reports Explorer

Track congressionally mandated executive branch reports by agency, committee routing, legal authority, due date, and receipt status.

Open Executive Reports Explorer

House

House Explorers.

Follow House bills, committees, witnesses, spending, rules, and floor records through source-linked pages built for search and discovery.

Funding records | FY2027 House

House Community Project Funding Explorer

Search collected Member requests and projects in House bill tables. Follow source documents and connections, with separate funding stages and visible office coverage gaps.

Open House Funding Explorer

Live data | House

Legislation Explorer

Search House bills, resolutions, actions, sponsors, summaries, text, amendments, and related hearings in one place.

Open Legislation Explorer

Public records | House

Committee Explorer

Browse House committees, subcommittees, memberships, jurisdictions, hearings, reports, and oversight activity.

Open Committee Explorer

Public records | House hearings

Witness Explorer

Find House hearing witnesses, affiliations, testimony, related issues, and appearances across committees.

Open Witness Explorer

Public records | House

House Expenditure Explorer

Search House vendors, offices, spending categories, quarterly patterns, and large disbursement transactions.

Open House Expenditure Explorer

Assistant | House

House Rules Explorer

Ask plain-language questions about House rules, procedure, precedents, and legislative workflow.

Open House Rules Explorer

Public records | House

House Journal Explorer

Explore the House Journal as a structured record of floor activity, votes, proceedings, and institutional history.

Open House Journal Explorer

Senate

Senate Explorers.

Search Senate committees, witnesses, hearings, disbursements, and source documents with clear links back to Senate.gov, Congress.gov, GovInfo, and official reports.

Funding requests | FY2027 Senate

Senate CDS Request Explorer

Search, sort and filter all 13,380 imported congressionally directed spending requests. Follow Members, committees and source documents, with clear coverage notes. Requests are not awards.

Open Senate CDS Request Explorer

Official XML | Senate

Senate Committee Explorer

Browse Senate committees, subcommittees, chairs, ranking members, rosters, meetings, and published hearings from official sources.

Open Senate Committee Explorer

GovInfo records | Senate

Senate Witness Explorer

Search Senate witnesses extracted from published GovInfo hearing records, with official PDF/HTML links and profile research links.

Open Senate Witness Explorer

Public reports | Senate

Senate Expenditure Explorer

Search Senate vendors, offices, source pages, and expenditure records extracted from Secretary of the Senate reports.

Open Senate Expenditure Explorer

From public records to institutional capacity

This is what structured legislative data makes possible.

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