Congressional Bills in Plain English

Plain English for every congressional bill

The US Congress introduces thousands of bills each session. Most are written in dense legislative language that's nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to parse — references to US Code sections, cross-amendments, appropriations schedules, and procedural jargon fill every page.

ClearBill solves that. Every enacted law and proposed bill in our database gets an AI-generated plain English summary that explains what the legislation actually does, who sponsors it, and what money moves as a result. We cover the full 119th Congress — from landmark legislation to the routine resolutions most trackers ignore.

The goal is simple: if you can read a news article, you can read a ClearBill summary. No law degree, no policy background, no insider knowledge required.

From Congress.gov to plain English in three steps

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   Fetch from Congress.gov We pull bill text and metadata daily from the official Congress.gov API — full text, sponsor details, status, and latest action history.
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   Simplify with AI Each bill is processed by GPT-4o-mini with instructions to explain it at a 9th-grade reading level — cutting jargon, highlighting key provisions, and surfacing dollar amounts.
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   Published instantly Simplified summaries are live within hours of a bill's latest action. Every summary links back to the official Congress.gov record so you can verify anything.

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