VFF: iCheck: Interactive Exploration of How Congress Votes

In this talk, we will give an overview of how U.S. Congressional voting records are used in election cycles to attack candidates, and demonstrate how our tool, iCheck, lets you "fact-check" such claims by exploring and breaking down how legislators vote with political parties and the President, over issues of importance to different special-interest groups, and more. We will also describe some challenges of working with this data and making our analyses efficient and responsive.