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United States · Federal legislation

What is government working on?

Pick an issue. See the proposals, the money, and what changes.

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A bill is more than its headline.Explore current proposals: the funding, named recipients, editable assumptions and our take.Models cover selected bills; analysis of the full inventory is still in progress.
Bill totals—Awaiting official records, not zero bills.

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Everyday topics, linked to source metadata
A bill can touch more than one issue.
Overall totals count each bill only once.

Across the country

Federal bills by the lead sponsor’s state

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What is actually moving?

Progress and inactivity are different signals.

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What is connected?

Official sources

GPO / Congress.gov bill-status records: titles, sponsors, subjects, CRS summaries, actions and cost-report links. House Clerk and Senate roll calls: individual floor-vote records, refreshed independently and published with source timestamps.

Not connected in this build

State and local bills, public-opinion polls, lobbying records, committee-vote feeds, complete analysis coverage and aggregate dollar totals. Bill-level roll-call links can omit votes on separate amendments, substitute packages or rules. The app does not call missing evidence an absence or a “no.”

Freshness

The hosted refresh target is hourly; execution and source coverage appear in the status details. With the current cadence, source checks older than six hours are flagged as overdue. Archives and agency records may lag legislative activity. The displayed source time and import completeness matter; “connected” does not mean instantaneous or exhaustive.

Privacy

Saved bills stay in this browser. No account, advertising tracker or personal address is required to browse. Analysis runs in hosted jobs under a spending cap; credentials stay on the ingestion service, never in the browser.

Simple display. Careful counting.

Totals

One record per Congress + chamber bill type + number. The default Bills view contains H.R. and S. measures. Use the measure selector for joint, concurrent and simple resolutions. Nonbinding resolutions do not become law. Amendments, state and local laws are separate scopes. Companion bills count separately as proposals; versions of one bill do not. A partial import is labeled, never presented as a nationwide total.

Categories

The same bill can match several topics. Official policy areas and subject terms are mapped to everyday labels. Topic terms in titles, available CRS summaries and indexed current bill text add matches with source context; governing conditions and incidental mentions are distinguished where detected. These automated matches help locate relevant provisions; they do not establish a legal effect or a complete interpretation of every clause. Data & coverage shows current-text indexing coverage. “Other / not tagged” remains visible. Open a bill to inspect why it was categorized and read the cited context.

Money

Cost-report availability is real data, not a dollar amount. Source-checked reviews carry scored amounts, their text version, baseline and fiscal years. AI extraction produces drafts; publication follows explicit risk checks; unresolved consequential claims require editor review. Category cards show financial coverage; individual proposals retain their own fiscal windows and versions. Spending, revenue and household effects are different. Estimates need matched text versions, time windows, baselines, and overlap checks before aggregation. No estimate displayed means unknown, never $0.

Inactivity

“No action for 90+ days” uses the most recent recorded legislative action, not the record’s metadata update date. It describes the source history, not a politician’s motive. A calendar entry is not a scheduled vote; a failed procedural vote is not failed final passage. At the end of a Congress, unpassed bills expire rather than remaining open.

Voting

Each roll call has its own question and member responses. Voice votes have no individual ledger. “Not voting” appears only when the official vote record says so. A failed download is a data error, not a vote.

Map

The map groups federal bills by the lead sponsor’s state. It does not estimate state economic impact or show state-legislature bills. Territory and missing-state records remain in overall counts and are noted separately.