Bills

Bill votes

GET/v1/bills/{billId}/votesAll plans

Every roll call vote taken on the bill, with the question, result and tally. Fetch a vote for how each member voted.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/bills/119-hr-6644/votes" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "data": [
    {
      "voteId": "119-house-2-224",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "House",
      "session": 2,
      "rollNumber": 224,
      "date": "2026-06-23T23:25:00.000Z",
      "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in Senate Adt to House Adt to Senate Adt",
      "result": "PASSED",
      "threshold": "SIMPLE_MAJORITY",
      "tally": {
        "yeas": 358,
        "nays": 32,
        "present": 0,
        "notVoting": 41
      },
      "subjects": [
        {
          "type": "BILL",
          "id": "119-hr-6644"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "voteId": "119-senate-2-182",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "Senate",
      "session": 2,
      "rollNumber": 182,
      "date": "2026-06-22T17:40:00.000Z",
      "question": "On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 6644 with an Amendment (SA 5823))",
      "result": "AGREED_TO",
      "threshold": "SIMPLE_MAJORITY",
      "tally": {
        "yeas": 85,
        "nays": 5,
        "present": 0,
        "notVoting": 10
      },
      "subjects": [
        {
          "type": "BILL",
          "id": "119-hr-6644"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "voteId": "119-senate-2-180",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "Senate",
      "session": 2,
      "rollNumber": 180,
      "date": "2026-06-18T11:01:00.000Z",
      "question": "On the Cloture Motion H.R. 6644",
      "result": "AGREED_TO",
      "threshold": "SIMPLE_MAJORITY",
      "tally": {
        "yeas": 84,
        "nays": 8,
        "present": 0,
        "notVoting": 8
      },
      "subjects": [
        {
          "type": "BILL",
          "id": "119-hr-6644"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

A real response, trimmed for length: lists cut to three items, long text shortened.

Path parameters

Name	Description
billIdrequiredstring	Congress, type and number, e.g. 119-hr-1234.

Response

Field	Description
billIdstring
dataVoteSummary[]
data[].voteIdstring	Congress, chamber, session and roll number: 119-house-2-108.
data[].congressinteger
data[].chamberstring
data[].sessioninteger
data[].rollNumberinteger
data[].datestring
data[].questionstring
data[].resultstring
data[].thresholdstring
data[].tallyobject
data[].subjectsobject[]	What was voted on: a bill id, an amendment, a nomination.