The Quiet Ledger reads the full text of a federal bill and grades it against eight published criteria. The criteria are frozen. The points are public. Every grade shows its work.
The complete statutory text. Not the title. Not the summary. Not the press release.
Each criterion is a hard question with published guidance. All eight are asked of every bill.
Points are awarded or withheld. Each one is tied to the passage that decided it.
The total sets the grade by fixed cut points. The bands do not bend for party or sponsor.
Constitutionality counts double. It is the foundation. The rest carry ten points each.
A bill moves through committees, votes, money, and lobbies. GTIE, the Gray Temporal Intelligence Engine, will map that network over time. It will name the points where outcomes turn.