Clean exploration
Browse people, bills, and activity in a more readable interface built around scanning, context, and clarity.
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About Legislation Lemur
Legislation Lemur is a civic data project built around clarity, trust, and restraint. It provides a clean, factual way to explore the U.S. Congress—without commentary, framing, or noise.
The platform focuses on core navigation and “fact-first” views: member profiles, bill activity, votes, committees, and a readable snapshot of what’s changing this session.
Coverage expands gradually. New dashboards and comparison views are layered on top of the same stable foundation—so the product stays fast, understandable, and neutral.
Current capabilities
Current features
- Find members by name or state, with clear factual profiles, including current status and vacancies
- Explore bills, sponsors, and recent actions in a readable format
- TL;DR summaries that simplify complex legislative text
- Vote activity and alignment signals focused on clarity, not spin
Core legislative data is refreshed regularly. Summaries and derived insights are based on official sources, with an emphasis on clarity, traceability, and restraint.
Source-aware structure
Legislative data is organized into views and summaries that are easier to revisit than raw government pages and PDFs.
Neutral presentation
The goal is not spin, persuasion, or outrage — just clearer access to what is happening and where it comes from.
Iterative by design
The platform is still evolving, with refinements to readability, navigation, and data coverage happening over time.
Recently added
Recently added
New tools and views now live across the site.
- Member vote alignment insights (issue-level patterns and context)
- Committees directory + overview page (types, counts, and navigation)
- Reference / Wiki pages for congressional concepts and sources
- Layout and readability improvements across core pages
Why it exists
Why it exists
Legislation Lemur began as a way to practice real-world data engineering, interface design, and civic visualization—while producing something genuinely useful.
The goal is simple: make it easier to understand how Congress works without requiring expertise, patience for dense tables, or exposure to opinion-driven cycles. No commentary. No outrage. Just accessible facts: who represents you, what they sponsor, how they vote, and how the institution is structured.
The name “Lemur” reflects curiosity and persistence—traits shared by both the data work behind the scenes and the broader civic goal. Participation is easier when information is neutral, understandable, and well-designed.
Last updated: February 27, 2026
Bill summaries
About bill summaries
Legislation Lemur includes simplified summaries to make complex legislative text easier to follow.
Summaries are generated from official bill text and structured data, then shaped into short, consistent formats that highlight purpose, scope, and key changes.
The goal is not to interpret or persuade—but to reduce friction so more people can engage with primary legislative information.
How it works
How it works (high level)
- Collect data from official congressional sources and structured public APIs
- Normalize members, bills, votes, and session activity into consistent models
- Cache and precompute common views for fast, stable performance
- Present minimal interfaces that prioritize comprehension over density
Legislation Lemur is built with Next.js (App Router), server-rendered React, and an ingestion pipeline powered by scheduled updates and data validation.
Roadmap
Roadmap
Legislation Lemur expands through “change-first” views and comparisons—helping users understand what happened, what changed, and why it matters, without added interpretation or opinion.
New features are introduced with care to maintain speed, readability, and trust in the underlying data.
Now
Core pages + clarity
- Strengthen core Explore flows across members, bills, and committees
- Expand “what changed” surfaces and session snapshots while keeping interfaces lightweight
Next
Comparisons + dashboards
- Insights & Explore dashboards — Congress-wide views, filters, and change-over-time comparisons (bills, votes, committees)
- Improved bill understanding — better summaries, topic extraction, and sentiment/stance signals with clear sourcing and confidence
Later
Personalization + elections
- Email updates — weekly summaries by saved locations and tracked members, with activity highlights and “what changed” comparisons
- Election tools — neutral voter guides and proposition breakdowns (where data is available)
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Questions or corrections
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