I selected peers for the questions they help citizens answer about legislators, campaigns, legislation and federal spending. The order below reflects expected usefulness to a resident, strength of public evidence and implementation effort. Audience traffic was outside this review.
30 working features · 25 available · 5 with partial records as of November 5, 2026. Each of the five has a working reader and a link to the original authority. Its earlier coverage requirement stays open where publications or verified matches are missing.
These were gaps in the local application at the time of the comparison. Check each delivery note for its current status. CongressClarity already has member comparisons, issue scorecards, office drafts, a private follow-up journal, member watchlists and source-linked finance and lobbying records. Each item below adds a distinct workflow.
Save the measure itself and flag new official actions since the reader’s last visit. Today the watchlist follows people. LegiScan
Connect a sponsored proposal to the enacted measure that contains it. Show the publisher’s relationship and let the reader check the actual text. Congress.gov
Put CBO’s estimate date, version, time period, spending and revenue effects beside the member’s vote. Match Congress and version as well as bill number. Congressional Budget Office
Link a committee to the FEC case file and distinguish an allegation, a dismissal, a conciliation agreement and other outcomes. Federal Election Commission
Open a prime award, then see which organizations received reported subawards and when. Deduplicate award IDs and avoid adding subawards to the prime amount. USAspending.gov
Find a phrase in bill text and show the measure, version and matching passage. Our existing filters search member records and titles. LegiScan
Pair a dated public statement or speech with the exact legislative question. Keep the original quotation in context and link both sources. Vote Smart
Show the committee calendar and let a citizen follow changes to the date or agenda for a bill of interest. Congress.gov
Show who tried to bring a measure out of committee. Keep signatures separate from sponsorship and votes on passage. Office of the House Clerk
Present the incumbent and challengers side by side with the same election cycle and each report’s cutoff date. Federal Election Commission
Use a published definition of a party-dividing roll call. Show the counted votes and exclusions behind each period’s rate. Voteview
Let a reader follow a phrase such as “rural hospitals” and see new mentions from any member, with the sentence and speaker attached. TheyWorkForYou
Let an office question cite a numbered provision in the correct version, instead of sending the recipient to the top of a long bill. Congress.gov
Show reported vendor, purpose, date and signed amount. Keep disbursements separate from money the campaign received. Federal Election Commission
Offer both geographies for federal spending and show when a district-level location is unavailable. USAspending.gov
Include the original question, election date, attributed response and an explicit state for candidates who supplied no answer. Ballotpedia
Build a shareable legislative list with bill statuses; keep personal notes out of the public link. LegiScan
Display CBO’s version-specific findings for state, local and tribal governments and private entities; include the basis and thresholds. Congressional Budget Office
Show first and last appearance and corrections from permissible U.S. public records. The UK peer demonstrates the workflow; U.S. sources govern our implementation. TheyWorkForYou
Link floor actions to bills so a reader can distinguish a debate, a motion and final passage on the same day. Office of the House Clerk
Give the official question, identified proponents and opponents, their attributed arguments and separately sourced funding. Ballotpedia
Connect a filing to its amendments and published FEC requests for additional information; distinguish correspondence from an enforcement decision. Federal Election Commission
Show each group’s name, time period, scoring rules and source. Keep those organizations’ judgments distinct from the citizen’s own agreement score. Vote Smart
Expose the baseline, assumptions and uncertainties CBO used and identify estimates that were corrected or superseded. Congressional Budget Office
Show the presidential position only where the source documents one, together with the specific roll call and coverage rules. Voteview
Publish a voluntary, verifiable office response beside the original disclosure with a date and correction history. Distinguish it from the citizen’s private journal. TheyWorkForYou
Export a reproducible selection by agency, recipient and fiscal period, with award IDs and a retrieval date. Existing CSV exports are member-based. USAspending.gov
Show how a current bill relates to earlier proposals while preserving each Congress, sponsor and version as a separate record. Congress.gov
Offer an address-level ballot guide and printable election-day reference via an official or authorized provider; keep addresses out of CongressClarity logs. Ballotpedia
Give researchers a reproducible member-by-roll dataset for a named Congress with explicit missing and nonvoting statuses, beyond per-member CSV downloads. Voteview
Read the address and its purpose before opening a profile.
Find a House office and both Senate offices together. Each serving member card shows an address or its official contact route.
Filter separately for general correspondence, specific services, or media inquiries.
Member profiles show the office source, verification date, named contact when available, and what the inbox handles.
Copy the exact published address from a card or profile to your email client.
An office with a verified general inbox can receive the subject and body you prepared. You decide whether to send it.
Download one contact card with the phone, official website, and purpose of each published work email.
Filter the budget library by the kind of finding and read the matching passage before opening a document.
Save a link to two selected estimates and compare dollar amounts for the same category and fiscal period.
The Amtrak example identifies the affected entity and distinguishes a legal threshold from an estimated compliance cost.
Read the assumptions about veterans’ claims and open the cited page for the estimate.
Inspect explicit corrections and replacement notices when CBO identifies them.
Choose a year and form type, copy the search details, and open the chamber’s official filing search.
Trace a holding’s reported owner, income and value range across two signed originals.
Compare the transaction date, notification date, owner, and reported amount or range with the Clerk’s filing.
Open a prepared office question with the member, reporting year, and form type already filled in.
Choose For or Against to see a source-linked argument with the reporting period and scope of the funding evidence.
See which measures still lack verified finance figures and open the appropriate state disclosure office.
Show only measures with figures for both sides. Published zeroes and unavailable amounts have different labels.
Save a source sheet with the arguments, finance figures, original links and known gaps for the measure.
On a designated project, check the named recipient against Treasury grant records. Open a federal award ID for its obligations and transaction history. A shared recipient or identical dollar amount alone cannot establish which grant fulfilled a designation.
Try the Reno airport project · Treasury award exampleOpen a roll call to see the state delegation’s positions and the party breakdown for matched members. Official chamber totals appear separately when the original source provides them.
Try Amodei’s Mining Act vote · Official roll callWe show sponsored bills, their timelines and original actions. Trace text into another law →
We show a member’s exact vote and now its delegation context. Track discharge petitions →
Our watchlist follows members, and our journal saves follow-ups. Monitor individual bills →
We show individual roll calls, head-to-head member comparisons and private agreement scores. Compare party voting over time →
We connect recorded votes with issue topics and campaign filings. Compare statements with votes →
We show candidate-cycle totals and named committee payments matched to legislation. Read closed enforcement cases →
We show a project designation and a separate, on-demand search for prime grant obligations. Follow funds to subrecipients →
Residents can find their current delegation and review imported election results. Read candidates’ own survey responses →
Residents can track a private follow-up with an office on their calendar. Follow mentions of a phrase in debates →
Residents can see designated project amounts and reported grant obligations. See a bill-version cost estimate →
