Cite Oravan

Canonical URLs

Every bill gets one permanent address in each language, built only from its own bill type, number, and Congress — never from its status. A citation written the day a bill is introduced still resolves after it's signed, fails, or expires; the address is never reused or reassigned.

Example — H.R. 1787, the same bill used in Oravan's own demo material:

https://oravan.org/bills/hr-1787-119

"Data as of" freshness

Every page states the date of Oravan's last successful nightly sync with Congress.gov — not a live feed, and not the date you happen to load the page. Cite that date, not today's date, as the moment the underlying facts were last checked. It's the same value as the as_of field in every MCP tool response. One exception: the news articles in a bill's "How it's being covered" section don't come from Congress.gov. Coverage is re-checked on its own rotation — the most urgent bills every night, the rest in turn — so the stamp says nothing about how old those articles are. That section prints the date of the newest article it holds — cite that as the coverage's own cutoff, not as a date we last looked; newer coverage may exist that we haven't collected.

Data as of August 25, 2026

Where the data comes from

Bill status, dates, sponsor, and text come from Congress.gov. Member and district-office data comes from the public-domain unitedstates/congress-legislators project. Both refresh only through Oravan's own nightly sync. The MCP citation envelope states the source in whichever language a query requested — both language versions are shown below, since this page is read by both:

The AI-content policy

Two kinds of text appear on a bill page, and they're never presented the same way. The official record — title, status, sponsor, dates, last action, the Congress.gov link — is copied, not generated. The plain-language layer — the headline, the summary, and the what/who/why/cost sections — is AI-drafted, and no field publishes unless automated gates pass: both languages present, the official record attached, and a schema check on every decode — a decode that comes back missing a required field is discarded rather than stored half-written, and the whole corpus is re-checked before the nightly sync is allowed to publish anything. The Spanish version of that layer is an AI translation of the English decode, produced in the same model call rather than a second reading of the bill, and it clears the same checks: the Spanish is one of those required fields, so a decode without it is never published in English alone. Nonpartisan wording is held two different ways, and we won't blur them: on bill decodes it's a drafting instruction to the model, and on Big Questions it's an enforced vocabulary check that blocks the publish. Wherever AI-drafted content appears — the site, the MCP server, an embed — it carries this label, in the language the request used; both language versions are shown below:

Call scripts work under a stricter rule still: they're drafted only inside Oravan's own site, and a caller must read and can edit the script before placing a call. Oravan's MCP server never generates one — it hands back a link to the on-site flow instead, so that human-review step can't be bypassed by an agent.

Licensing

The underlying official-record data — U.S. public domain, in both languages:

English: Public domain (Congress.gov; unitedstates/congress-legislators).

Español: Dominio público (Congress.gov; unitedstates/congress-legislators).

Oravan's own AI-drafted plain-language content, in both languages:

English: CC BY 4.0 (Oravan's AI-generated plain-language content); underlying official data is U.S. public domain (Congress.gov).

Español: CC BY 4.0 (el contenido en lenguaje sencillo generado por IA de Oravan); los datos oficiales subyacentes son de dominio público en EE. UU. (Congress.gov).

AllSides' outlet-lean ratings, shown in each bill's "Read" section, are used under a separate CC BY-NC license and are excluded from the MCP server and from anything commercial — a website-only feature until that's resolved.