SourcesTransparency
Where the data comes from
Every number, vote, document and headline on StateSig.tv comes from a public source. Here is each one, what it provides and how often the desks read it. Nothing is added, scored or rewritten along the way.
How we handle the data
- As published. Votes are shown as cast, documents in their own words, numbers as the agency released them. When a source is wrong, the desk is wrong in the same way, and we link to the original so you can check.
- Measured the same way. Every party, member, justice and president goes through the same code. Nothing is weighted, scored or ranked by opinion.
- Labelled when it isn’t official. Any text written by an AI is marked as such, and documents not yet printed in the Federal Register say so.
- Polite to the source. The desks follow each site’s robots.txt and rate limits, cache what they read, and only ask again when something may have changed.
- Nothing about you. No accounts, no ads, no tracking cookies. The desks never ask who you are or where you live. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t identify you.
- Checked in the open. The time each source was last read is shown below and on the status page. Spotted a mistake? Report a problem.
Civicdesk
| Source | What it provides | How often · last read |
|---|---|---|
| Office of the Clerk, U.S. House | House roll calls the moment they close | Every 5 minutes, every minute after a new vote |
| Voteview (UCLA) | Every House and Senate roll call with each member’s vote. Senate votes usually arrive a day later. | Every 3 hours |
| congress-legislators | Members, their terms and official photos (public domain) | Daily |
| docs.house.gov | The House floor schedule for the week | Hourly |
| Congress.gov and the Congressional Research Service | Bills, their status and CRS’s official summaries, with links to the text on GovInfo | Hourly; new laws every 6 hours |
| Claude (an AI model) | A plain-language summary of a bill that CRS hasn’t summarized yet, written from the bill’s text. Always labelled as AI-written, and replaced by CRS’s summary once there is one. | When a bill needs one |
| Federal Election Commission | Each member’s campaign committee: raised, spent, cash on hand and where it came from | Daily |
| House financial disclosures | Stock trades reported by House members | Every 6 hours |
| Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (U.S. Senate) | Lobbying reports that name a bill | As bills come up, cached 3 days |
Courtdesk
| Source | What it provides | How often · last read |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Court of the United States | Opinions with the Reporter’s summary, who joined and who dissented; order lists; the argument calendar | Every 90 seconds on weekday mornings during the term, every 20 minutes otherwise |
| Oyez | Each case’s question, and the justices’ votes when an opinion doesn’t say how the Court divided | After each decision |
| CourtListener (Free Law Project) | Published opinions from the 13 federal courts of appeals | Through the day |
Execdesk
| Source | What it provides | How often · last read |
|---|---|---|
| The White House, Presidential Actions | Executive orders, proclamations and memoranda the day they’re signed, in full | Every 3 minutes from 7 AM to midnight ET, every 15 minutes overnight |
| Federal Register | Every executive order since 1997 and what revoked it; this term’s presidential documents; tomorrow’s documents on public inspection; major rules, effective dates and comment deadlines; the Register’s size by year; rules by agency | From every 10 minutes (public inspection, office hours) to twice a day |
Headlines
The “In the news” sections gather headlines from news publishers’ public feeds and show them as reported, with the outlet named and a link to the original story. We don’t write, rewrite or rank the stories, and a headline appearing here isn’t an endorsement of it.