Congress, translated. Representatives, measured. Both sides, side by side.
Mandate reads every bill on the House and Senate floor and explains it in plain English — with equal-weight arguments from supporters and opponents.
Built for people who actually want to know what their government is doing.
Real bill. Real vote. Select a screen to bring it forward.
The difference
Why not just ask an AI assistant?
You can. People do. Here is what happens.
A general assistant answers from memory. It will tell you what a bill does with complete confidence, and it has no way to check whether it is right, whether the bill changed last week, or whether it is thinking of a different bill with a similar name. It cannot tell you which parts of its answer it retrieved and which it produced, because to the model there is no difference.
That is not a flaw in the model. It is what a general assistant is for.
Mandate was built to answer one thing. Every response starts by pulling the actual document — the bill text, the roll call, the opinion — and every claim points back at the section it came from. When the source is not there, it says so instead of filling the gap. You can check any sentence it gives you, because it will show you where to look.