Opinion · optional
Topics
Topic thoughts are opinion and participation. They never enter score_overall or rewrite the official record.
The record isn't a feed. Topics and the civic feed are opinion. The digest and the index stay the product.
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Nominations
Confirmations, cloture, and advice-and-consent.
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Appropriations
Spending bills, omnibus packages, continuing resolutions.
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Defense
Armed services and national defense recorded votes.
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Immigration
Border, asylum, and immigration law.
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Energy
Energy, mining, pipelines, and fuels.
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Taxes
Tax and Internal Revenue measures.
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Judiciary
Courts, judges, and justice votes.
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Elections
Voting, ballots, and election administration.
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Surveillance
FISA, Section 702, and surveillance authorities.
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Health
Medicare, Medicaid, and health measures.
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Liberty & sunlight
Optional directional pillar — FOIA, disclosure, expression.
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First principles
Optional directional pillar — spending expansion and regulatory growth.
Discussion
Environment
Citizen discussion of environmental law and agencies.
Discussion
Education
Schools, student aid, and education policy.
Discussion
Economy
Jobs, prices, and economic policy as opinion — not a score.
Discussion
Civil rights
Equal protection and civil-rights statutes as discussion.
Discussion
Foreign policy
Treaties, aid, and foreign affairs as opinion.