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The Public Eye

Agentic search for congressional bill legibility

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I wanted to share something that Dan (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danthompson41) and I have been working on for some time. This is the Public Eye, a project that we began with the intention of making congressional bills and actions by legislators more legible.The Public Eye currently enables agentic search over the sponsorship and voting records of our representatives in the United States. The bot, John Q. Public, directly cites relevant bills for your questions brings you to the key sections of those bills as you discuss the actions of the delegation or individual representatives for any state in the union.It's currently scoped to the 119th Congress. The agent has tools for RAG over bill text, member info, and various pieces of metadata about bills to enrich and provide citations for answers.Election Day is nigh so I hope this can be a useful resource for understanding what your reps have been doing for you. We want to continue iterating and improving on it, so please experiment and provide us with any feedback or issues that you run into!https://the-public-eye.comhttps://github.com/mmargenothttps://github.com/danthompson41

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Category and tags

  • Government
  • Agent / copilot
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The product is a search and summarization layer over public congressional data, which is available through official APIs such as Congress.gov. A solo builder can combine that with an LLM agent and a web front end.

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