Recently, I wanted to get information on the voting record of my representative in the Oregon House of Representatives. Oregon does have an online portal (Oregon Legislative Information System) to allow people to investigate legislation and voting records. From review of the online interface, it was easy to search for bills by bill number, and to get various information on those bills, but I did not see a way to get the voting record for my representative.

Fortunately, OLIS has an OData API to be able to create queries and get data from the system. Together with Claude Code, I was able to create several Python scripts to be able to get the voting record for a representative (House or Senate). I am linking to these scripts as Gists on Github for now, I am not sure yet if I want to create a repo for them. However, they may help others to have some examples to start their own investigations.

• getMeasures.py (get a list of bills)
• getEnactedMeasures.py (bills that have passed and become law)
• getVotesOnLaws.py
• getVotingRecord.py (get a voting record for a representative for a specific legislative session)