The Honest Copy
The Detectors
Sixteen automated scanners examine every bill in Congress for statistical anomalies. When a bill exceeds a detector's threshold, a signal enters the editorial queue for human review before publication.
Bills where institutional dollar allocation exceeds individual beneficiary language by 2:1 or more.
No articles yetBills that went from introduction to law in under 60 days with fewer than 5 cosponsors.
No articles yetBills spanning an unusually high number of unrelated policy domains in a single vote.
No articles yetRoll call votes where both parties voted with near-perfect unity on opposite sides.
No articles yetBills that reached a floor vote within 3 days of introduction.
No articles yetEnacted legislation that received fewer committee reviews than normal.
No articles yetBills with an unusually high number of text revisions between introduction and passage.
No articles yetBills with high text divergence between introduced and final versions.
No articles yetBills where populist title keywords do not match the actual funding structure.
No articles yetBills that seek to repeal, abolish, or sunset existing law with low cosponsorship.
No articles yetBills with significant activity that lack a Congressional Research Service summary.
No articles yetBills whose media coverage volume is 3x the median or whose outlet tone is highly polarized.
No articles yetLegislation stuck at its initial referral for over 180 days with few cosponsors.
No articles yetLegislation reintroduced across three or more consecutive congresses without being enacted.
No articles yetBills stuck at committee referral for 60+ days with no hearing, markup, or vote.
No articles yetBills that showed new legislative progress after 90+ days of dormancy.
No articles yetBills where text changed too close to a vote for anyone to meaningfully read what was in the bill.
No articles yetFor detailed explanations of each detector and the legislative terminology behind them, see the Glossary.