What the record contains
Exactly which Congresses and data classes are ingested, and to what completeness. Absence is stated as absence — never as zero or as a political fact.
| Congress | bills | members | sponsors | cosponsors | actions | Roll calls | votes | grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119th · current | Partial · 1,481 | Complete · 555 | Partial · 1,481 | Partial · 24,062 | Partial · 13,473 | Partial · 1,329 | Partial · 355,790 | Partial · 674 |
| 118th | Complete · 19,315 | Complete · 554 | Complete · 19,315 | Complete · 206,533 | Complete · 70,169 | Partial · 1,454 | Partial · 531,534 | — |
| 117th | Complete · 17,828 | Complete · 557 | Complete · 17,817 | Complete · 214,645 | Complete · 64,990 | Partial · 1,368 | Partial · 429,323 | — |
| 116th | Complete · 16,606 | Complete · 550 | Complete · 16,601 | Complete · 218,129 | Complete · 63,074 | Partial · 1,146 | Partial · 412,722 | — |
| 115th | Complete · 13,563 | Complete · 561 | Complete · 13,556 | Complete · 169,065 | Complete · 61,013 | Partial · 1,474 | Partial · 520,555 | — |
| Cycle | candidates | committees | links | totals | contributions | Ind. expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Complete · 9,798 | Complete · 20,938 | Complete · 8,584 | Complete · 3,856 | Partial · 50,990 | Partial · 13,632 |
| 2022 | Complete · 8,579 | Complete · 19,793 | Complete · 7,641 | Complete · 4,153 | Partial · 51,577 | Partial · 10,350 |
| 2020 | Complete · 7,758 | Complete · 18,286 | Complete · 7,004 | Complete · 3,979 | Partial · 50,187 | Partial · 8,477 |
| 2018 | Complete · 7,371 | Complete · 19,022 | Complete · 7,122 | Complete · 3,687 | — | Partial · 7,425 |
| 2016 | Complete · 7,396 | Complete · 17,651 | Complete · 6,393 | Complete · 2,904 | — | Partial · 2,807 |
Member↔FEC-candidate linkage (all cycles): 761 linked / 10 ambiguous / 147 no-name-match / 0 no-state of 918 members. Candidate identity, committees, and reconciled totals are complete from FEC bulk data. The itemized contribution and IE counts above are a bounded local sample for fast research; the complete authoritative record is searched live from the FEC (advanced) on the contribution research surface, with results labeled live/cached/local. Election cycles are distinct from congressional terms; FEC coverage is tracked separately from legislative coverage. See campaign-finance data notes.
- Senate member-level votes are not linked. The authoritative Senate roll-call record identifies each member by a Senate LIS id, while The Quiet Ledger keys members by their bioguide identity. No government-published dataset co-publishes both identifiers in the same record, so the two cannot be joined without name-based inference — which we do not do. House member-level votes, by contrast, are complete: the House Clerk record is bioguide-native.
- Senate roll calls are the bill-linked subset. Senate roll-call identity and bill linkage come from the official GPO bill record; procedural and nomination votes that reference no measure are not exhaustively enumerated. House roll calls are complete.
- Historical grades are absent by design. The current methodology did not exist when earlier Congresses legislated, so those bills are shown as not graded rather than assigned a retroactive grade.
- Campaign-finance contributions are a bounded sample. Candidate identity, committees, and reported totals are complete from FEC bulk data; itemized contributions are a bounded recent sample per committee, not the full record. Members with no deterministic FEC-candidate match show campaign-finance identity unavailable — identity is never guessed from names.
A grade exists only where The Quiet Ledger has published one. Historical legislation is generally present without a grade; see Methodology for how grading and historical semantics work.