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What Moved in Congress follows the bills that actually move: out of committee, through a floor vote, to the President's desk. Each one gets a short explanation in plain English.
Thousands of bills are introduced every Congress, and most never get a hearing. This site skips those and covers the ones that do something. The dashboard shows what moved this week, the last 30 days, or the whole Congress so far, and every bill page shows where the bill stands and how it got there.
What counts as "moved"
A bill is covered once a committee has reported it, or once it has gone further than that: placed on a floor calendar, passed or failed in a floor vote, sent to the President, vetoed, or signed into law. The rule is applied the same way to every bill, with no editorial picking. Bills still sitting in committee get no summary. Where this site has a page for one, it shows the status, sponsor and history, and links to congress.gov for the text.
Where the data comes from
Bill status, actions, sponsors, cosponsors, committee membership and members all come from the congress.gov API, published by the Library of Congress. The site refreshes from it at least once a week, so a vote from this morning may not show up until the next refresh. Congress.gov is the official record; if this site ever disagrees with it, congress.gov is right.
The summaries and committee descriptions are written by AI
The plain-English summaries are written by an AI model, working only from each bill's own text. When congress.gov has not yet published a bill's text, the summary is written from its official title, says so, and is rewritten once the text appears. They describe what the text would do. They never say whether a bill passed; status comes straight from congress.gov.
AI can get things wrong. Every summary names the version of the bill it was written from and links to the official text, so you can check it. When a new version of a bill's text is published, its summary is written again from the new text.
The short description of what each committee does is written the same way, from the House and Senate rules that set out each committee's subjects (House Rule X and Senate Rule XXV). Each one links to the rule it came from. Subcommittees are described from their parent committee's rule and their own name. A few select and joint committees and commissions are not in either rule, so theirs are written from the name alone, and the page says so.
The newsletter
Once a week, the bills that moved go out as a short email. It's free, sent through Buttondown, and every issue has an unsubscribe link. Past issues are in the archive.