Transparency In Government Act 2008 (Revised)
Title II - Enhancing Public Access to the Work of Congressional Committees, Legislative Inforation, and Votes
Sec. 206. Electronic access to votes.
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The Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate shall post on the public Internet site of the Office of the Clerk or Secretary, respectively, a record, organized by Member or Senator name, in a structured data format, of the recorded votes of each Member or Senator, including the roll, date, issue, question, result, and title or description of the vote, and any cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office related to the vote; and
Each Member or Senator who maintains an official public Internet site shall provide a clearly presented electronic link to the Member’s individual recorded vote information described in paragraph (a).
General Comments on Transparency In Government Act 2008 (Revised)
In the case of the senate, why not a record organized by the State, instead of Senator name? Consider that a vote may have been cast by the previous Senator in a chair if the vote occurred a while ago. Nothing wrong with relational databases, also.