truthinpolling/tip-civic-data

Notice — 26 September 2026: please ignore the status and status_bucket columns in the federal bills file.

Neither column was published by Congress. Both were filled in by our own system. status mostly says "active" and can be wrong: a bill the President has signed may still read "active". We have removed it from our site and our data services, and it will be removed from this file in a future release. status_bucket is also our own label, not Congress's words: it says "passed" on 106 bills and is blank on the rest.

For where a bill stands, use latest_action_text and latest_action_date. Those are Congress.gov's own words and date for the bill's most recent action.

TIP Civic Data — U.S. Government Accountability Dataset

Nonpartisan civic accountability data from Truth In Polling (501(c)(3) nonprofit).

Includes federal and state legislation, official voting records, citizen approval ratings, and multi-factor vote predictions.

Datasets

File	Description	Rows
federal_bills	Federal legislation (119th Congress) with status; no AI summaries	18,676
state_bills	State legislation with status and status_bucket; no AI summaries	8,422
federal_officials	Current members of Congress	555
state_officials	State legislators across 49 states	7,650
federal_floor_votes	Congressional roll call votes	241,403
state_floor_votes	State legislative roll call votes	69,473
citizen_approval	Aggregated citizen approval ratings (no PII)	5
bill_vote_distributions	Aggregated citizen bill votes (no PII)	63
pfp_predictions	Multi-factor vote predictions per official per bill	94,388
state_campaign_finance	State campaign finance contributions ($200+ threshold)	0

Update Frequency

Updates are currently paused. Last refreshed: 2026-03-29 (oldest file) to 2026-09-13 (newest file).

License

CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution.

Some state bill, legislator and vote data in these files comes from LegiScan (https://legiscan.com), used under CC BY 4.0.

Citation

@misc{tip_civic_data_2026,
  title={TIP Civic Data: U.S. Government Accountability Dataset},
  author={Truth In Polling, Inc.},
  year={2026},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/truthinpolling/tip-civic-data},
  note={Weekly updated civic accountability data}
}

Methodology

See How It Works for scoring methodology.

API Access

For real-time queries, use the TIP Public API — 36 REST endpoints, 31 MCP tools.

Data Notes

• All citizen-facing data (approval ratings, bill votes) is aggregated — no individual voter data is included.
• Campaign finance data is from FEC bulk filings (1.6M federal contributions).
• The United States is a Constitutional Republic.