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I'm additionally interested in who never vote together. Do some Congressmen just never agree? Are there aggregate patterns here that change over time [e.g. partisanship]? I believe there's a ton of interesting data in this area, and this is a good starting point.

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Likewise, how does the voting structure and people's votes differ from their norm when voting result is near break-even. E.g. 7/6 split. I feel there's a lot of media and public perception management going on, agreed upon by parties or those in who have majority playing games OR worse those who are playing double-agent, mostly voting for "their" side, but when it matters, switching over to their real team / beliefs / friends / money-buddies (lobbyists wants). Would too be interesting to match up the data with who all received money, and how votes look based on industry, and specific companies, etc..

Thanks for the comment. I agree it's a good starting point but theres a lot that can be done. One plan we wanted to implement was a filter to match congressman based on different topics they voted on. Ex funding, etc. For aggregate patterns we would have to look at prior voting records as well, but it seems like a great idea. All our code is on github, and we'll slowly list all the features we want to add on the wiki there.

Leaderboards, all of this needs to be in sortable leaderboards, front and center...

Great work so far!

Implementing what I wrote in comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6575348 would give great insight too. I'm sure a lot is blatantly obvious, but visualizing data is always helpful to reenforce it in someone's mind.

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