Applications
Vote Analyzer - Economy
Federal representatives ranked according to your preferences
2009-09-20 04:12:47
Welcome to the Vote Analyzer (Economy version).
This application allows you to review the record of your federal legislators on key economic votes that led to and continue to feed the economic crisis.
How to use this application
First, choose a chamber of Congress (House or Senate).
For the selected chamber, select the votes that you would like to consider in the analysis.
For each vote, you can weight the votes according to your preferences. A weight of "2" will cause the final score to consider that vote to be twice as important as votes with a weight of "1". Default weight for all votes is "1" (weight all votes evenly).
You may also state a preference as to how to regard neutral ("present", "no vote", or "abstain") votes. By default these count as a vote in favor of the majority, since that is the practical effect of the vote. In some rare cases, a legislator with a major injury was not present for a vote; these are not considered differently by the application, as the responsible thing to do in that case is to resign in favor of a person who is able to represent the constituency, rather than to leave them without representation.
If the selected legislator did not hold office at the time of the vote, that vote is not considered in their score, regardless of options chosen.
Scoring is from 0 (extremely bad) to 100 (extremely good). This application has been created before any source data was loaded in order to preserve the objectivity of the results.
At present, all data in this application refers exclusively to the final action that passed the legislation in each chamber.
