This visualization was created with the goal of best informing the viewer. The nodes that create the outer circle are members of the House of Representatives or the Senate and are colored according to party. Each of the congressmen or women get a lighter colored connection if they voted. These connections are connected to the bill itself, an industry, or their party. When connecting to a party or the dark green industry nodes, the connection keeps its light color, but if the connection is directly to the bill it represents the vote of that individual, red being nay and green being yea.

 The industry and party nodes represent the collective votes of groups of people, when a majority of the members or the party or beneficiaries of an industry vote in a similar manner. The nodes from the industry to the party is representative of the votes of all those connected to it and is colored in the same manner as voting as an individual.

 ProPublica Congress: Provided the data for bills and members. ProPublica received some of the data from congress.gov.

 Center for Responsive Politics: Provided the financial data for members of the House of Representatives and Senate.

 congress.gov: Used to verify data received from ProPublica.