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Books
- Using CapitolMathBills, officials, committees and the calendar; saved views, lists and watching bills.28 articles →
- TrackingYour organization's own work on the bills it follows: tracked items, positions, statuses, owners and watchers.16 articles →
- Legislator ScorecardsBuilding a scorecard of how legislators voted on the bills you care about, reading it, and putting it on your website.11 articles →
- Sharing your dataWidgets for your website, webhooks and digests, bulk datasets and API keys.13 articles →
- Administering your organizationYour organization's settings, members, roles and licenses, groups, single sign-on, billing and audit log.9 articles →
- DevelopersThe REST API and the MCP server: authentication, your first call, and the guides around the reference.3 articles →
- Data & methodologyWhere the data comes from, what it covers, and how each derived measure is computed.8 articles →
Start here
- Welcome to CapitolMathWhat CapitolMath covers, how this help is organized, and where to start for the work you do.
- Roles and licensesRoles, Full and Basic licenses, and the permission grid: the defaults for each, the locks, and who can change whose.
- Political lean scoringHow a bill's economic and social lean is scored, and how a legislator's is worked out from their votes and sponsorships.
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