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The links on this web page allow visitors to review the voting records of federal and state legislators on matters of importance to drug policy reform. Please note that this is a work in progress, and that so far it is only our federal voting scorecard that is officially ready for public consumption.

There is other information that can be found by following links -- bills of interest at the federal and state level, and voting records at the state level -- that has not yet gone through our review process for accuracy. Feel free to take a look, and let us know if you spot anything we've missed or gotten wrong.

Click here for our current action alerts.

Click here to see a list of federal votes we've tracked, with their outcomes, and follow the links on that page for details on the vote outcomes by member and state.

Click here to look up federal and state legislators, and their voting histories, by zip code.

Click here to read a list of current federal bills we are following.

Click here to read a list of state bills we are following (not yet proofread).

Click on the following links to look up members of Congress by name or state:
Scorecard: House of Representatives, 2009 (111th Congress, 1st session)
Scorecard: US Senate, 2009 (111th Congress, 1st session)
Scorecoard: House of Representatives, 2008 (110th Congress, 2nd session)
Scorecard: House of Representatives: 2007 (110th Congress, 1st session)
Scorecard: House of Representatives: 2005 (109th Congress, 1st session)

More is coming soon, including write-your-legislator web forms for a range of action alerts, federal bills of interest, state bills of interest, and state legislator voting records.

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