A public record of legislative judgment
119th Congress · Method full_text_v4
About the Ledger
A law is its text. So we read the text.
A federal bill runs to hundreds of pages. Its effects sit in amendments, definitions, and dates. Almost no one reads them. The title is written by the people selling the bill.
The Quiet Ledger reads all of it. Every bill is graded on its full text against eight published criteria. The method is frozen. It is the same for every bill. It does not read the sponsor or the party.
Every grade shows its work. The criteria met. The criteria failed. The passage that decided each one. Anyone can check it.
The Ledger also holds the record around a bill. Votes and actions from the congressional record. Campaign money as reported to the FEC. Each figure carries its source and its date. A contribution is a fact. What it means is left to the reader.
I.Bills are gradedThe text is judged. The work is shown.
II.Members are not scoredTheir record is laid out by fact. No rankings.
III.Nothing is hiddenThe method is public. So is every grade.