The EarnSeat mission
Every seat must be earned.
Help ordinary people decide whether their representatives deserve their vote—and understand how to demand better or become the alternative.
Public office belongs to the people.
People deserve to know what their representatives do with the power voters give them. EarnSeat helps you understand their decisions, decide who deserves your vote, ask for answers, and learn how to run for office yourself.
Explain the real change.
Say what happened, who it affects, and who can act. Apply the same standard to every party.
Keep the stages clear.
A proposal, a vote, a law, and a measured result are different things. Show the official's documented part.
Give people a next step.
Help them prepare a question, use an official channel, follow up, or explore running for office.
What's covered today?
The directory includes House seats nationwide and 100 senators. Each current officeholder has a searchable current-Congress activity view. Seven selected national decisions also have reviewed explanations across housing, healthcare, taxes, benefits, and borrowing. See the current collection, dates, and limits →
The activity collection includes official roll calls, primary sponsorships, and active cosponsorships. Withdrawn cosponsorships are not included. This is not a complete career history or an official rating. A missing record does not establish inactivity. Historical votes are matched to current officeholders only when the source supports a match.
The main site has no preferred state, district, or city. Limited local testing examples remain available through explicit example links. Candidate guides link to official resources for all 56 states and territories. Future filing dates, fees, signatures, and office-specific requirements must be confirmed with the election authority.
Follow the evidence.
Each decision has a Sources tab with original bill or law text, official status, and applicable roll calls. Explanations also use sources such as CBO, Medicare, and Social Security.
Impact labels identify affected people and the documented or proposed effect. Estimates, eligibility limits, and implementation uncertainty are explained. Income and wealth are different measures; we use the measure the source supports.
A vote shows a position. A member's stated reason requires a separate source. Voting on a broad bill does not establish support for each individual provision.
The reviewed policy explanations retain their own review dates. Official activity is refreshed separately; check the latest successful collection here. An imported action is not a newly reviewed policy explanation.
Explore the decisions and their sources →Your actions stay yours.
Saved follow-ups, notes, checklist progress, and an optional remembered district stay in your browser. You can explicitly choose to keep a copy of an edited question. Nothing is sent to an official automatically. Browser storage does not sync across devices.
Issue reports are sent to EarnSeat and stored privately for the owner to review. We store the category, page, text, and time. Daily hashed identifiers limit abuse; raw network addresses are not stored in reports. Keep sensitive personal details out of reports.
ZIP searches are sent to the official House lookup; district matches are cached for one day. No street address is collected by EarnSeat. Hosting providers have their own privacy rules.
EarnSeat uses Google Analytics on public reading pages to see how many people visit and which pages they read. Google may use cookies for these reports. We skip the action planner, saved follow-ups and private feedback dashboard. You can turn on Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track to skip analytics on this site. External official websites have their own privacy rules. Keep sensitive personal details for the appropriate official channel.
Calendar downloads must be imported into your calendar; EarnSeat does not send background reminders.