Use the 'tabular view' to quickly check NOMINATE scores
Explore the votes of America's longest-serving Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, who presided over key civil rights votes
As Joe Biden is inaugurated as America's 46th President, browse his votes as a U.S. Senator
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting by protecting voting rights. It banned poll taxes and literacy tests and required states with historians of Jim Crow discrimination to seek advance clearance before changing and requiring states with histories of Jim Crow discrimination to obtain advance clearance to change laws governing voting.
