How do I search the official House Clerk roll call votes for a specific member or bill?

1. Where to start: the Clerk’s Votes landing page — the official hub

The Office of the Clerk’s Votes landing page is the authoritative starting point: it groups roll calls by Congress and session and links to the Roll Call Votes index, a search tool, and a “Find Your Representative” feature so you can go from a member’s name to their recorded votes or from a bill to the relevant roll call^[6]” ^{[3] [1]}. The Clerk homepage also provides daily schedules and other floor materials tied to votes ^[7].

2. How the roll-call pages are organized — roll numbers, sessions and vote pages

The Clerk compiles House floor votes by roll-call number and session (e.g., 119th Congress, 1st Session). The Roll Call Votes index lists blocks of roll calls (1–99, 100–199, etc.) and each roll-call page gives the vote question, bill number, date/time, vote type and the per-member recorded votes including totals and not-voting counts — see Roll Call 289 and Roll Call 285 for concrete examples ^{[1] [2] [8]}.

3. Searching by bill or roll number — direct lookups

If you have a bill number or roll number, enter it in the Clerk’s Search Votes or navigate the Roll Call Votes index to the appropriate roll-call page (URLs follow the pattern /Votes/YYYY###, as seen in Roll Call 289 and Roll Call 285) where you’ll get the full tally and each member’s recorded position ^{[2] [8] [1]}. The Clerk pages clearly label the vote question and the measure (e.g., H.R. 4405 for Roll Call 289) so you can confirm you’ve got the right item ^[2].

4. Finding how a specific member voted — “Find Your Representative” and member lists

To find a single member’s votes, use the Clerk’s “Find Your Representative” link or the search on the Votes page; that path takes you to vote listings tied to that member or lets you filter roll-call pages to see the member’s yea/nay/present entries ^[3]. Individual roll-call pages list every Representative’s choice explicitly, so you can also pull the member’s vote directly from the roll-call page for any vote you locate ^{[1] [2]}.

5. Alternative routes and third-party tools — Congress.gov and GovTrack

Congress.gov mirrors roll-call data and now offers a beta House Roll Call Votes API (announced in partnership with the Clerk), which is useful if you want programmatic access or cross-reference with the Library of Congress’s dataset; the Congress.gov roll-call browse shows the same compiled tallies as the Clerk ^{[4] [5]}. Non-government sites like GovTrack and C-SPAN also present roll-call results and may offer convenient member-centric pages and email alerts, but the Clerk is the primary source ^{[9] [10]}.

6. What the official pages show — metadata and vote context

Each official roll-call page shows the vote question, vote type (Yea-And-Nay, Recorded Vote, Motion to Suspend the Rules, etc.), result designator (P for Passed or other codes), the vote date/time and totals (yea/nay/present/not voting). For example, Roll Call 285 lists yea 222 and nay 209 plus the vote question and bill title, and Roll Call 289 lists Aye 427, No 1 and remote voting by proxy details ^{[8] [2] [1]}.

7. Limitations and caveats — what to watch for

The Clerk’s pages are authoritative for House recorded votes, but available sources do not mention detailed historical metadata beyond what’s posted (e.g., reasons for each member’s vote beyond statements on the record are not provided on vote pages) and the Congress.gov API is described as “beta,” so feature parity and completeness for non-legislation votes are still being expanded ^[5]. Also, some aggregated external sites may format or summarize data differently; cross-check with the Clerk’s roll-call page when accuracy matters ^{[3] [9]}.

8. Quick how-to checklist

• Go to the Clerk Votes landing page (Votes) and choose the Roll Call Votes index for the relevant Congress/session ^{[3] [1]}.
• If you have a roll number, go straight to that page (pattern shown by /Votes/2025289 and /Votes/2025285) to see the full member tally ^{[2] [8]}.
• To search by member, use “Find Your Representative” or the Votes search to pull up that member’s recorded votes ^[3].
• For programmatic access or broader browsing, consult Congress.gov’s roll-call pages or its new beta API ^{[4] [5]}.

If you want, I can give step‑by‑step clicks with the exact Clerk URLs to reach a specific member’s vote or show an example query using the Congress.gov beta API ^{[1] [5]}.