Votes

List votes

GET/v1/votesAll plans

Roll call votes in both chambers, newest first, with the question, result and tally.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/votes?congress=119&chamber=House&limit=2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "data": [
    {
      "voteId": "119-house-2-314",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "House",
      "session": 2,
      "rollNumber": 314,
      "date": "2026-09-16T23:05:00.000Z",
      "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass",
      "result": "PASSED",
      "threshold": "SIMPLE_MAJORITY",
      "tally": {
        "yeas": 401,
        "nays": 14,
        "present": 0,
        "notVoting": 18
      },
      "subjects": [
        {
          "type": "BILL",
          "id": "119-s-2403"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "voteId": "119-house-2-313",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "House",
      "session": 2,
      "rollNumber": 313,
      "date": "2026-09-16T22:58:00.000Z",
      "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended",
      "result": "PASSED",
      "threshold": "SIMPLE_MAJORITY",
      "tally": {
        "yeas": 415,
        "nays": 9,
        "present": 0,
        "notVoting": 9
      },
      "subjects": [
        {
          "type": "BILL",
          "id": "119-hr-9497"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJsIjoidm90ZXMiLCJrIjpbIjIwMjYtMDktMTZUMjI6NTg6MDAuMDAwWiIsImNtdWp1NDRpbjNtazJwbTBmeXlzZGtiMmIiXX0"
}

A real response.

Query parameters

Name	Description
congressinteger	e.g. 119
chamberstring	House or SenateHouse · Senate
cursorstring	nextCursor from the previous page
limitinteger	Page size, 1 to 100 (default 25)

Response

Field	Description
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.
nextCursorstring \| null	Pass as `cursor` for the next page; null on the last page.