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Read a Bill Yourself

Every federal bill and every roll-call vote is public. Reading one directly is the fastest cure for taking a headline's word for it.

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The steps

  1. Step 1

    Pick a bill you have seen argued about this year

  2. Step 2

    Find it on congress.gov and open the actual text

  3. Step 3

    Read the summary, then find the section the argument is about

  4. Step 4

    Look up how your own representative voted

  5. Step 5

    Write one sentence on what the coverage left out