House Rules Explorer 119th Congress Prototype RAG UI

Ask what the House rules mean in practice.

A working chatbot prototype for procedural questions about special rules, germaneness, amendments, voting, committee work, and the House Rules and Manual.

Source posture

Designed for retrieval against H. Res. 5, the House Rules and Manual, and official procedural materials. This static preview uses curated sample responses until the production RAG endpoint is wired in.

Ask HouseRules

Procedural assistant

Local prototype

What it is built to answer

What a special rule does before floor consideration
Whether an amendment might raise germaneness issues
How motions, suspension days, and voting windows work
Where to start in the House Rules and Manual

Retrieval model

Documents: H. Res. 5 and House Rules and Manual
Chunks: Rule, page, and section metadata
Answer style: Concise, cited, nonpartisan
Cache: Exact and semantic reuse from old RuleBot design

Official sources

H. Res. 5 on Congress.gov Rules Committee resources GovInfo House Rules and Manual