Congress Report Card

How well VoiceToCongress can measure each issue — and how well Congress is performing.

The VoiceToCongress Report Card summarizes congressional performance across major public issues using legislation, sponsorship, cosponsorship, bill progress, vote records where available, public data, issue requirements, and measurable outcomes. Each grade is designed to be clickable so readers can see the evidence, scoring logic, source material, and data limitations behind the result.

Important distinction: The Data Readiness Grade measures how ready VoiceToCongress is to publish a trustworthy grade for an issue. The Congress Grade measures how well Congress appears to be performing on that issue. A strong individual legislator grade can exist even when the overall congressional or system grade is weak.

System Score Summary

Issues Tracked	Issues Publicly Rated	Issues In Review	Issues Not Yet Rated
13	3	6	4
Total Bills Classified	Member Activity Records	Overall Data Readiness	Overall Congress Grade
7,129	56,000+	C	D

These values are starter placeholders and should be replaced by the current report card JSON or database view when the home page is connected to live data.

Issue Report Card Summary

Issue	Public Status	Data Readiness	Evidence Coverage	Confidence	Congress Grade	Legislative Progress	Outcome Grade	Leaderboard	Last Updated
Government Spending	Public Beta Approved	CData improving	84%	Medium	F	F	F	View	2026-05-05
Cost of Living	In Review	B-	78%	Medium	D	D	D	View	2026-05-05
Education	Public	B	86%	High	C	C	C	View	2026-05-05
Healthcare	Draft	C	62%	Medium	NRNot rated	NR	NR	View	2026-05-05
Immigration	In Review	C+	70%	Medium	D	D	D	View	2026-05-05
Technology & AI	In Review	B-	80%	Medium	C-	C	C-	View	2026-05-05

How To Read This Page

Data Readiness

How ready VoiceToCongress is to publish a trustworthy grade for the issue. This includes requirements, legislative coverage, member attribution, public metrics, source traceability, review quality, and freshness.

Evidence Coverage

The approximate share of relevant bills, actions, votes, sources, public metrics, and member activity currently captured for the issue.

Confidence

A plain-language confidence rating based on source quality, completeness, manual review, official estimates, auditability, and known limitations.

Congress Grade

How well Congress appears to be performing on the issue based on activity, alignment with public requirements, legislative progress, oversight, public value, and measurable outcomes.

Legislative Progress

How far relevant bills and oversight actions have advanced through the legislative process.

Outcome Grade

Whether measurable public conditions are improving, worsening, or failing to improve relative to the issue requirements.

Public Status

Draft, In Review, Preliminary, Public, Mature, or Not Rated. This label tells the reader how cautious to be when interpreting the grade.

Recommended Universal Scoring Domains

Domain	Suggested Weight	Purpose
Issue Definition & Requirements	10%	Measures whether the issue is clearly defined and supported by public-facing requirements.
Legislative Activity	15%	Measures whether Congress is introducing, sponsoring, cosponsoring, debating, or voting on relevant legislation.
Legislative Quality / Alignment	20%	Measures whether legislation aligns with the public requirements for the issue.
Legislative Progress	15%	Measures whether relevant legislation moves beyond introduction and referral.
Public Outcome Metrics	20%	Measures whether public conditions are improving, stagnant, or getting worse.
Transparency & Oversight	10%	Measures hearings, reports, audits, public estimates, accountability actions, and traceability.
Fiscal / Resource Stewardship	10%	Measures cost awareness, savings, offsets, long-term obligations, implementation practicality, and public value.

Grade Detail Pages

Each grade should eventually open a detail page that explains exactly how the grade was calculated. Recommended sections for each detail page include:

Grade summary
Score breakdown
Data sources
Included bills and actions
Excluded bills and reason for exclusion
Member attribution logic
Votes used, where available
Committee and leadership role logic
Metric values
Known data limitations
Audit trail and downloadable data

Known Limitations

This page is a public demonstration framework. Some issue grades are preliminary because data coverage, official estimates, vote integration, committee attribution, or manual quality review may still be incomplete. Publishing those limitations improves credibility and helps readers understand which grades are mature and which grades are still under development.