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96.1. Bills and Votes Dashboard

The Bills and Votes dashboard page shows a list of the bills and votes you have chosen to track.

To get to the dashboard page, click on Bills and Votes tab and choose Dashboard. The Bills and Votes Dashboard layout is divided into two main sections.  The top section is a summary of bills you are tracking. The lower section is a summary of the votes you are tracking. A brief description of each piece of information shown on the dashboard is below:

Bills You Are Tracking

Number: The bill number.
Title: The title of the bill.
Sponsor: The legislator who introduced the bill and is chief advocate for its passage.
Is Public: This will always be either 'Yes' or 'No'. It tells you if the bill is viewable on your website if you are using Aristotle's web-posting feature (contact your sales rep for more information about this feature).

Votes You Are Tracking

Session: The session of Congress in which the vote took or will be taking place.
Bill: The title of the bill that was or will be voted on.
Date: The date the vote took place.
Yeas: The number of votes for the bill.
Nays: The number of votes against the bill.
Is Public: This will always be either 'Yes' or 'No'. It tells you if the vote is viewable on your website if you are using Aristotle's web-posting feature (contact your sales rep for more information about this feature).

Adding bills and vote entries

There are links on the Bills and Votes dashboard that will take you to the pages to add bills and votes you want to track either manually or from the feed. Once you have searched for and saved bills and votes you would like to track, they will be listed on the Bills and Votes dashboard page.

Customizing the list

You can choose the number of tracked bills/votes shown per page by clicking on the dropdown box in that section. This can be updated in both the 'Bills You Are Tracking' and the 'Votes You Are Tracking' sections. The choices available to you are 10, 25, 50 and 100 entries per page and you can flip through multiple pages using the right and left arrows in the bottom-right corner of each section.

 

Searching the list

By entering text or numbers in the search field you can narrow the number of entries shown for each section. The search will look for matches in the number and title fields of the bills and votes you are currently tracking.

 

Viewing and printing

To open the specific Bill or Vote for editing, click on the pencil edit icon to the left of the entry. To print the specifics of the entry, click on the printer icon to the left of the entry.