Advanced Floor Vote Analysis

If you want to perform this analysis on a vote that is not a CQ Key Vote, you must first search for that vote, open the vote from the search results, and choose to "Analyze this Vote" from the vote page.

Once you have found a floor vote to analyze and clicked "Analyze this Vote," you may

• select by name two members whose votes you would like to compare on the selected floor vote
• use the drop-down menus to select by demographic characteristics the members whose votes you would like to compare on the seleted floor vote

The demographic drop-down menus allow you to select members of Congress based on their

• party affiliation
• type of vote cast on the CQ Key Vote under analysis (yea, nay, or either)
• state
• year of birth
• self-announced religion
• previous occupation
• sex
• military service

It would be possible, for example, to see how the female members of Congress voted on the floor vote that you had selected for analysis. Or you could see how male members with prior military service voted on it. Or you could search on members from the state of New York who professed a Methodist faith and voted "yea" on the selected measure. Of course, if you are interested in how a particular member, or two particular members, voted, you could select those individuals from the drop-down list and leave all of the demographic search parameters set to their default values.