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posted by martyb on Sunday January 15 2017, @08:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-track dept.

Vital Statistics on Congress, first published in 1980, long ago became the go-to source of impartial data on the United States Congress. Vital Statistics’ purpose is to collect and provide useful data on America’s first branch of government, including data on the composition of its membership, its formal procedure (such as the use of the filibuster), informal norms, party structure, and staff. With some chapters of data dating back nearly 100 years, Vital Statistics also documents how Congress has changed over time, illustrating, for example, the increasing polarization of Congress and the diversifying demographics of those who are elected to serve.

Vital Statistics began as a joint effort undertaken by Thomas E. Mann of Brookings and Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, in collaboration with Michael Malbin of the Campaign Finance Institute. The datasets were published in print until 2013 when the project migrated online for the first time. This year, Brookings’ Molly E. Reynolds spearheaded Vital Statistics’ most recent update. The eight chapters [...] contain more than 90 tables of data which were collected through the years of this project and updated most recently in January 2017.

Source: The Brookings Institution

https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/vital-statistics-on-congress/#datatables


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday January 16 2017, @09:26PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday January 16 2017, @09:26PM (#454526) Journal

    Now the "party unity" will not be Democrat vs. Republican, it will be Democrat policitian + Republican politician vs. Democratic voter + Republican voter.

    That's the way it has always been. Democrat and republican are one, and term limits will do nothing to fix that.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday January 18 2017, @03:41PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @03:41PM (#455454)

    I think it will help make congressional elections more important in the public eye. Too few people are aware of who their Congresscritters are and how they are represented by them.