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Where can I find the official roll call vote and downloadable CSV for this House vote by name and party?
Executive summary
You can get the official House roll‑call list by name and party from the House Clerk’s roll call pages (official HTML and downloadable CSV links are published there) and from Congress.gov’s new House roll‑call pages and API; third‑party aggregators like GovTrack, Voteview and C‑SPAN provide alternative interfaces and downloadable datasets or exports for analysis (House Clerk and Congress.gov are the primary official sources) [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Where the official record lives: the Clerk of the House website
The Office of the Clerk compiles House floor roll calls “as compiled through the electronic voting machine by the House Tally Clerks under the direction of the Clerk of the House” and publishes a session index and per‑vote pages; the Clerk’s vote pages for the 119th Congress list roll calls with vote totals and individual Member votes and are the canonical official source for House roll call data [1] [5].
2. How to get a downloadable CSV (official route)
The Clerk’s roll‑call pages for a given Congress/session (e.g., the 119th, 1st session) are the place to find official downloads: the Clerk site indexes roll calls (Roll Calls 1–99, 100–199, etc.) and provides per‑vote detail that has been used as the basis for downloadable exports; users typically find a CSV or other machine‑readable export linked from those per‑vote or session pages on clerk.house.gov [1] [5]. Available sources do not mention the exact filename or URL pattern for every CSV in the current reporting, but the Clerk site is the official starting point [1] [5].
3. Congress.gov — official library mirror and API access
Congress.gov (Library of Congress) now includes enhanced access to House roll‑call votes dating from 2023 and a beta House Roll Call Votes API; the web app allows browsing by Congress/session, filtering votes, and downloading search results, and the beta API offers member‑level endpoints that return how each Member voted (including BioGuide IDs) — a second official source for programmatic CSV or JSON exports [6] [2] [3] [4].
4. Third‑party aggregators and convenience tools
If you want different formats, historical joins, or integrated analytics, GovTrack and Voteview provide roll‑call databases and regular exports: GovTrack maintains a Congressional Votes Database and email alerts, while Voteview offers a weekly updated dump of its roll‑call database suitable for researchers; C‑SPAN’s Congressional Chronicle presents per‑vote pages and summary results for quick human browsing [7] [8] [9].
5. Which source to pick, depending on your needs
- For official, legally authoritative vote text and the Clerk’s machine‑compiled tally: use the Clerk of the House pages (clerk.house.gov) [1] [5].
- For an official, searchable library interface and an API with member‑level vote returns: use Congress.gov and its new House vote endpoints [6] [3] [4].
- For analytics, archived dumps, or researcher‑friendly formats (NOMINATE, historical DW‑NOMINATE scores): use Voteview and GovTrack [8] [7].
Each has tradeoffs: Clerk is the authoritative raw machine tally; Congress.gov makes programmatic access simpler; third parties add convenience and extra data joins [1] [2] [8].
6. On accuracy, timing, and possible discrepancies
The Clerk’s vote compilations come directly from the House electronic voting machine under the Clerk’s direction; Congress.gov and the Clerk partnered to surface these votes in the Congress.gov API, and third parties ingest those feeds or scrape the pages, so discrepancies most often arise from ingestion timing or format conversions rather than substantive vote differences [1] [3] [4]. If an exact, authoritative CSV is required for legal or archival use, download from clerk.house.gov or use the official Congress.gov API endpoints that now include member votes [1] [3] [4].
7. Practical next steps and quick links to try first
- Go to the Clerk’s Roll Call Votes index for the 119th Congress to find per‑vote pages and downloads (clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/index.asp) [1].
- Use Congress.gov’s House roll call browse page and the beta API endpoints for member‑level JSON/CSV exports (congress.gov/votes/house/119th‑congress/1st‑session and Congress.gov API docs) [2] [3] [4].
- If you need analytics or integrated historical datasets, consult Voteview’s data download page and GovTrack’s votes database (voteview.com/data; govtrack.us/congress/votes) [8] [7].
Limitations: reporting above is limited to the sources provided; specific per‑vote CSV filenames or direct download URLs beyond the Clerk index and Congress.gov export tools are not listed in the available sources and thus are not quoted here (not found in current reporting).