About VoteFacts.com

A nonprofit organization founded in 2022, VoteFacts.com News Reports is a nonpartisan news service whose purpose is to help civically engaged individuals and organizations track many of the most consequential issues debated in the U.S. House and Senate in the 117th Congress (2021-2022) and 118th Congress (2023-2024). We invite readers to use our fact-based website to make up their own minds about the overall legislative work of Congress and the voting records of individual lawmakers.

Thomas Voting Reports, the predecessor organization, was the longest-running independent news service in Washington between July 1973 and June 2021. At one time or another over nearly five decades, more than 700 daily newspapers subscribed to its coverage of key issues and individual voting records in Congress. The subscriber base included the New York Times Regional Newspapers, Washington Post, Cox Newspapers, Ottaway Newspapers, Philadelphia Inquirer, Richmond Times Dispatch, Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle and hundreds of other publications based in towns and cities in the 50 states and Puerto Rico.

Trustworthy Journalism

All reporting and editing on VoteFacts.com is the work of independent journalists with decades of experience in covering the local angle in Congress for U.S. digital news media and legacy newspapers. Editor Richard G. Thomas is accredited by the U.S. House and Senate daily press galleries to cover legislative actions on Capitol Hill. To hold a congressional press card, he must adhere to ethical and professional rules stating, in part, that accredited reporters

“…must not be engaged in any lobbying or paid advocacy, advertising, publicity or promotion work for any individual, political party, corporation, organization, or agency of the U.S. Government, or in prosecuting any claim before Congress or any federal government department” and that their publication “must be editorially independent of any institution, foundation or interest group that lobbies the federal government, or that is not principally a general news organization.”