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Start here Politics: Congress, bills, votes and elections Look up any member of Congress, bill, vote, election or new federal rule, and read the news around it, with the official records one select away. 5 min read

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  1. Search Politics for a member, a bill, a vote or a topic Type a name, a bill number or a topic in the Politics search box to jump to a member or bill, or to see matching bills, votes, rules and news. 5 min read
  2. Browse Congress by state, party and chamber Find your senators and representative, or any member of Congress, by state, party or name, and see when each Senate seat is next up for election. 4 min read
  3. Read a member's page: votes, bills, committees and news A member's page gathers their term, voting record, sponsored bills, committees and coverage, with plain counts of how often they voted and with their party. 5 min read
  4. Find a bill and see where it stands Browse the current Congress's bills and resolutions by status, topic, sponsor or number, and see which ones have moved, passed or become law. 4 min read
  5. Read a bill's page: stages, summary, actions and votes A bill's page shows how far it has got, who sponsored it, what it does in plain language, every action taken on it and every roll-call vote. 5 min read
  6. Find a roll-call vote Browse the recorded House and Senate votes of this Congress, newest first. Filter to bills, party-line or failed votes, or search by words. 3 min read
  7. Read a vote: the result, the party split and every member's answer A vote's page shows what was decided, the result and the majority required, how each party voted, who broke with their party and how every member answered. 5 min read
  8. See who sits on each committee List every Senate, House and joint committee, then open one to see its chair, ranking member, members, subcommittees and the news that names it. 3 min read
  9. Follow the elections: control of Congress and the races See the date of the next election, who controls the Senate and House, every Senate and governor race, and the House races with the most trading. 5 min read
  10. Read a race's page: odds, names and news A race's page gathers the prediction markets on one election, who holds the seat now, the names the markets lead with, and the latest coverage. 3 min read
  11. Read the President's executive orders and other actions Browse the President's executive orders, proclamations and memoranda as the Federal Register publishes them, newest first, with links to the official text. 3 min read
  12. Find new federal rules and proposed rules open for comment See the rules agencies have recently issued and the proposed rules still taking public comment, with deadlines, effective dates and the official text. 3 min read
  13. See who is in the political news The In the News page ranks the members of Congress and other people that political coverage names most, over the last day, week or month. 3 min read
  14. Browse politics by topic Topics sort political coverage by subject, from elections and courts to policy issues and world affairs, each with a page of the latest headlines. 3 min read
  15. Prediction markets in Politics: how to read the odds Prediction markets show what traders are paying for each outcome of an election or a bill. Learn to read a card and where Politics shows them. 5 min read
  16. Follow members, bills, committees, races and markets Follow the members of Congress, bills, committees, races and prediction markets you care about, and see their latest votes, actions and odds on one page. 5 min read
  17. AI Briefings on Politics pages Many Politics pages open with a short AI briefing built from the page's records and headlines. See where it appears and what its limits are. 4 min read
  18. Where Politics gets its information and how current it is See where each part of Politics comes from, how often it is refreshed, and why a page can trail the official record by a few hours. 4 min read