About Arlington Votes

Arlington Votes is a project of ARLnow that tracks how the federal and Virginia state lawmakers representing Arlington County vote on the floor. We currently track:

• U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine
• U.S. Representative Don Beyer (VA-08)
• Virginia state senators and delegates whose districts include Arlington

Data sources

• Congress.gov API for U.S. House roll-call votes and bill metadata.
• Senate.gov roll-call vote feeds for U.S. Senate votes.
• OpenStates for Virginia General Assembly bills and votes.

AI summaries

The plain-English bill summaries and topic tags on this site are generated by AI (Google Gemini) from official bill text and titles. AI summaries can be wrong or oversimplified — follow the "View original bill" link to read the authoritative version.

Update cadence

Data is refreshed automatically once a day. Roll-call votes may take a few hours to a few days to appear from their original source.

Corrections

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