What is The Fourth Branch?
Plain-language summaries of bills in Congress, with a vote of your own that you can hold against how your representative voted.
The project has wound down. Kept here as a record of the work.
The Fourth Branch summarizes bills being debated in Congress, allows users to vote on the summaries, and compares their votes to those of their Congressmen.
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