Terms

These terms cover projectcuria.com and everything published on it. Using the site means accepting them, and if you would rather not, the remedy is to stop using the site. Everything below is the same agreement at more length, with the limits spelled out.

What you may do with the data

The compiled datasets published on the data page are offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Republish them, chart them, build on them, use them commercially, quote them in an argument with your uncle. Credit Project Curia and link back, and you have met the license. There is nothing to sign and nobody to ask.

Two limits on that grant. The first is that the underlying facts were never ours to license. A roll-call vote is a public record, and nobody owns the fact of how a member voted. What the license covers is the work of compiling, reconciling and structuring those records. The second is that we can only license what we hold, and photographs are not covered. Each carries its own license, and some are used to identify the person the record is about rather than under any grant at all.

Automated access is fine within reason. The static files and open cross-origin headers exist so that nobody has to scrape pages, so please use those. What is not fine: traffic heavy enough to affect other readers, or presenting the data in a way that puts claims in our mouth we have not made.

What we promise, and what we don’t

Everything here is derived from public records, rebuilt every morning, and offered as it stands. We work at accuracy and we publish the sources so you can check us. But no figure is warranted to be correct, current or complete, and the government feeds underneath carry errors of their own.

Do not make this your only source for a decision that matters. Follow the link and read the primary record.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses arising from your use of the site or of the data. If you find something wrong, send a correction request and it will be acted on. Tell us what page it is on, what it says, and what you believe the record shows, at [email protected] or through the contact form.

What this site is not

It is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Congressional stock trades are published here as a matter of public disclosure and accountability, not as a signal to trade on, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

It is not an endorsement of any candidate, party, campaign or committee, and nothing on it argues for the election or defeat of anyone. The site reports records and readers draw their own conclusions.

Where the site notes an overlap between a member’s committee and a trade, or between a donor and a vote, it is describing a relationship visible in public records. That is not an allegation of insider trading, corruption or any other wrongdoing, and it should not be read as one.

Other people’s work

The site links to and builds on the work of others: Congress.gov, the Federal Election Commission, the Clerk of the House and the Senate, the Office of Government Ethics, the Census Bureau, the Free Law Project, the unitedstates project, the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, and Wikimedia Commons contributors. The stock disclosure records reach the site through congress-trading-monitor, an open source feed under an MIT license compiled from House, Senate and ethics filings. Their material stays theirs under its own terms, and each source is named on the page that uses it.

We do not control the sites linked from here and are not responsible for what is on them.