Votes

Get a vote

GET/v1/votes/{voteId}All plans

One roll call vote with every member's position. Use it to show who voted which way, by party.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/votes/119-house-2-224" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "positions": [
    {
      "bioguideId": "A000055",
      "name": "Robert B. Aderholt",
      "vote": "YEA",
      "party": "R",
      "state": "AL"
    },
    {
      "bioguideId": "A000148",
      "name": "Jake Auchincloss",
      "vote": "YEA",
      "party": "D",
      "state": "MA"
    },
    {
      "bioguideId": "A000369",
      "name": "Mark E. Amodei",
      "vote": "YEA",
      "party": "R",
      "state": "NV"
    }
  ]
}

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

Path parameters

Name	Description
voteIdrequiredstring	Congress, chamber, session and roll number, e.g. 119-house-2-108.

Response

Field	Description
voteIdstring	Congress, chamber, session and roll number: 119-house-2-108.
congressinteger
chamberstring
sessioninteger
rollNumberinteger
datestring
questionstring
resultstring
thresholdstring
tallyobject
tally.yeasinteger
tally.naysinteger
tally.presentinteger
tally.notVotinginteger
subjectsobject[]	What was voted on: a bill id, an amendment, a nomination.
subjects[].typestring
subjects[].idstring
positionsVotePosition[]
positions[].bioguideIdstring
positions[].namestring \| null
positions[].votestring
positions[].partystring \| null
positions[].statestring \| null