Roll Call News

Name: Roll Call News
Rating: 3.1 (19 reviews)
Author: FiscalNote, Inc

News

Free

19 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

News
Developer

FiscalNote, Inc
Language

EN
English
Size

7.8
MB

Breaking news and analysis from Roll Call, the source for objective and nonpartisan coverage of the people, politics and personalities of Capitol Hill since 1955. From our vetting of Members of Congress to the investigating and uncovering of legislative scandals, reading Roll Call is an everyday ritual on Capitol Hill. When Congress goes home to campaign, we hit the road with them. And when Congress works until all hours of the night debating a controversial bill, Roll Call reporters are up with them, bringing our readers up-to-the-minute analysis. Stay connected to the political debate in Washington. Download the easy-to-navigate Roll Call app today and become an insider. Features: - Stories, photos and video from inside and around the Capitol. - Breaking news alerts. - Customization: choose your personal topics; search and bookmark the stories you like; get Roll Call news to your inbox.

Ratings & Reviews

3.1

out of 5

19 Ratings

Good news source, amateurish app
01/29/2017

alarob
Roll Call is a great way to track news about the U.S. Congress and other branches of federal government. But the app looks and feels like the result of a high school coding assignment. Headlines and captions are routinely truncated, with no way to get the missing text. The top story is promoted with an annoying popup that frequently contains a picture and NO text. (I have yet to see it display a complete headline.) Photos and graphics are dumped into articles without scaling, so you only see about 10% of the whole thing. This might be amusing if the app had been designed as a guessing game. But in a news app — where the unscaled images mean lots of scrolling to get to the rest of the article — it's the opposite of amusing. Stick to the website.
Good news source, amateurish app
01/29/2017

alarob

Roll Call is a great way to track news about the U.S. Congress and other branches of federal government. But the app looks and feels like the result of a high school coding assignment. Headlines and captions are routinely truncated, with no way to get the missing text. The top story is promoted with an annoying popup that frequently contains a picture and NO text. (I have yet to see it display a complete headline.) Photos and graphics are dumped into articles without scaling, so you only see about 10% of the whole thing. This might be amusing if the app had been designed as a guessing game. But in a news app — where the unscaled images mean lots of scrolling to get to the rest of the article — it's the opposite of amusing. Stick to the website.
Lousy
02/20/2020

KLBALRN
• Can’t copy story excerpts from within the app• Attempts to send stories via SMS or email causes freeze-up• Attempts to communicate with developer met with unresponsiveness• Images with stories improperly oversized• App is now completely dead, i.e., does not update w new stories.

Developer Response
Hello, thanks for the detailed feedback, please let us know if you've had a chance to use our updated version of the app and if you have any further recommendations for improvements, thanks!
Lousy
02/20/2020

KLBALRN

• Can’t copy story excerpts from within the app• Attempts to send stories via SMS or email causes freeze-up• Attempts to communicate with developer met with unresponsiveness• Images with stories improperly oversized• App is now completely dead, i.e., does not update w new stories.
Developer Response 12/01/2021
Hello, thanks for the detailed feedback, please let us know if you've had a chance to use our updated version of the app and if you have any further recommendations for improvements, thanks!
Read fast before it crashes
04/23/2018

Mr. Ichiban
Worth the quick glances at the political news. Come on, who is working on this app? Do you know that it crashes on almost every story? Fix it!
Read fast before it crashes
04/23/2018

Mr. Ichiban

Worth the quick glances at the political news. Come on, who is working on this app? Do you know that it crashes on almost every story? Fix it!
The app is broken
03/01/2020

Caveat-canem
The Roll Call app stopped working about two months ago. It no longer updates news stories.This is now a zombie app. Too bad.

Developer Response
Hi there, please let us know if you've had been able to use our updated version of the app and if you have any recommendations for improvement, thank you!
The app is broken
03/01/2020

Caveat-canem

The Roll Call app stopped working about two months ago. It no longer updates news stories.This is now a zombie app. Too bad.
Developer Response 12/01/2021
Hi there, please let us know if you've had been able to use our updated version of the app and if you have any recommendations for improvement, thank you!

We've updated RollCall with our new privacy statement on the Appstore

Version 9.0.1

03/05/2022

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