1. Bills that got a recorded vote
The 118th Congress (January 2023 to January 2025) held recorded votes on 532 bills and resolutions. We leave out 89 of them: House rules that only set the terms of debate for another bill, and resolutions about the House’s own business, like censures and Speaker elections. That leaves 443 bills that can be scored.
2. A score on each issue it touches
The scoring is done by AI models, not people: each model reads the bill’s title and Congressional Research Service summary. The models page compares them. Each bill is read against 24 voter issues and scored from −2 (clearly hurts that issue) to +2 (clearly helps it). Most bills touch one to four issues; the rest get no score at all, rather than a zero. A 0 means the bill helps the issue in some ways and hurts it in others. Every score comes with a reason and a confidence level. When more than one scorer rated the same bill on the same issue, the site uses their average and lists each score on the bill’s page.
Four issues have no built-in right answer: firearms, immigration, abortion and reproductive health, and AI and tech. On those, the score records which way a bill moves policy, and you pick the side you favor.
3. Only votes on the bill itself
A yea on final passage, a motion to suspend the rules and pass, a conference report, or a veto override means the member backed the bill. Votes on amendments, motions to recommit, cloture and other procedural steps don’t measure that, so they don’t count. If a member voted on the same bill more than once, their last vote counts. Missed votes and present votes count for nothing.
4. From votes to a ranking
For each issue you pick, a yea on a bill adds its score and a nay subtracts it. Each lit box on the board shows the result as a share of the most a member could have earned: +100 means every counted vote moved that issue your way, −100 means every one moved it against you.
The ranking is a little more careful than that number. A member with one lucky vote shouldn’t outrank one with twenty strong ones, so ranking adds 16 points of doubt to everyone’s total. Thin records sink a little; long records barely move. The vote count next to each score tells you how much a number rests on.
5. What this is not
- It isn’t a party score. Party is shown, never used.
- It isn’t about money. Campaign finance isn’t part of this yet.
- It isn’t final. Scores are judgments, and you can read every reason on the bill’s page and disagree with it.