About
Independent legislative search built around source data.
LawLinter compiles public government records into searchable pages, relationship views, bill text navigation, voting context, CBO cost estimate context, lobbying disclosure context, and API-ready data. The goal is to make complicated legislative records easier to inspect without replacing official government sources.
Source-first
Raw source payloads are preserved before parsing so normalized data can be traced, replayed, corrected, and improved.
Relationship-focused
Bills, laws, sponsors, cosponsors, committees, subjects, votes, text versions, campaign-finance records, and lobbying disclosure filings are connected through normalized tables and lookup data.
Deterministic first
Search, rollups, text signals, affected sectors, and vote analytics are built from deterministic source processing so public pages can be traced back to source records.
What LawLinter is
LawLinter is an independent public-interest and data product effort operated by Larzilla LLC. It is designed to help people find legislation, understand how records relate, inspect official text versions, track vote records, and connect legislative activity with public CBO cost estimate, campaign-finance, and lobbying disclosure data.
What LawLinter is not
LawLinter is not a government website, legal adviser, lobbying adviser, campaign, political committee, or official source of legal status. Official government sources remain authoritative for bill text, laws, votes, filings, and legislative status.
How corrections work
Because source systems change and parsers can make mistakes, local display, linking, indexing, and relationship errors should be reported through the contact page. Corrections to official government records usually need to be made by the official source.
Current source direction
- Congress.gov data for bills, laws, amendments, committees, members, summaries, text links, and related records.
- CBO cost estimate links and publication metadata when associated with bills through official Congress.gov bill records.
- House roll call vote data for vote summaries, member positions, and rollups.
- FEC/OpenFEC campaign-finance data as a deterministic source layer connected through conservative candidate and legislator bridges.
- LDA.gov lobbying disclosure data as a public-source filing layer connected to bills through bill references in lobbying activity descriptions.
- PostgreSQL-backed search, indexes, lookup tables, rollups, and analysis caches for efficient public pages and API responses.