What shipped in each release of Hilltelligence, and when. Versions are dated — year.month.revision — so a version number tells you how current a release is. For what each feature does and where to find it, see How It Works.
2026.10.3
Current
Two-factor codes by text message.
Account Security
You can now set up two-factor authentication with a code sent to your phone by text message, as well as with an authenticator app. Choose it under Add two-step verification in your security settings.
A phone number is optional at sign-up, and it is only ever used as a second factor — never to sign in on its own.
2026.10.2
A new Basic plan, and a Help assistant that answers for the app you are using.
Plans
Basic is a new plan at $10 a month or $108 a year. It reads every conclusion Hilltelligence has computed — plain-English summaries, passage probability, caucus support, member alignment and comparison — lets you follow bills, members and nominations with notifications and digests, and asks Pomeroy about a bill’s text.
Standard and Pro also create things: deep analyses, memos, exports, chats about members and hearings, and bill chat with the full record. The pricing page now carries a side-by-side comparison of the three plans.
Help
The Help assistant now knows which platform you are asking from — the website, the iPhone and iPad app, or the Mac app — and answers with that platform’s own controls, including where things live that the website keeps on a Dashboard.
It also answers the questions people asked most: signing out, working offline, what to do when an app asks you to update, and where to send feedback.
2026.10.1
Search the bills of any earlier Congress, and ask Pomeroy who lobbies on a member’s bills.
Pomeroy
Ask Pomeroy About This Member can now answer who lobbies on a member’s bills, using the lobbying filings that name bills the member sponsored or cosponsored.
Bills
The Bills page has a new Congress menu. Pick the 118th or 117th to search their bills by keyword, bill number or citation; it opens on the current Congress, and the next Congress appears in the menu as soon as it is seated.
Results from an earlier Congress are labelled with their Congress, and a short note says what is thinner in those years.
2026.10.0
Every committee hearing, markup and business meeting now has one page that fills in over time — from the day it is announced to the printed transcript, its summary and Pomeroy.
Committees
A committee’s Meetings tab now lists every hearing, markup and business meeting as one entry, including its subcommittees’ meetings, with each row showing what it holds so far: video, the bills on the agenda, the transcript, the summary.
Each meeting has one page. It carries the video, witnesses, documents and agenda as the committee posts them, and gains the transcript, a plain-English summary, Deep Analysis and Pomeroy chat once the Government Publishing Office prints the transcript — until then the page says when to expect it.
Hearings whose transcript the official record never linked to its meeting, including nearly every Senate hearing, now reach the meeting’s video and documents. Older hearing links keep working and open the meeting’s page.
Meeting records now reach back to the start of the Congress in January 2025.
2026.09.16
Watch the House and Senate floors live from the Schedule page, and see which committees are meeting right now.
Schedule
Whenever the House or the Senate is in session, the Schedule page shows a Live on the Floor section with each chamber’s own video — press play to watch one or both.
A new Committees Meeting Now list shows the committees scheduled to be meeting right now, each linked to its committee page and to the meeting itself.
Committees
While a meeting is in progress, its committee page and its meeting page both carry the live video. When a House meeting’s own video link isn’t posted yet, the committee’s live channel plays instead, clearly labelled.
Pomeroy
A saved Pomeroy answer that ran out of room says so when you reopen it, on screen and in the Word export.
In a new Deep Analysis, the bill’s own number, its earlier version and its companion bill are links you can follow.
Help and privacy
A new Support page explains how to reach a person and how to get help on the website and in the apps.
The Privacy Policy now describes exactly what the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps send.
Messages about plan limits now simply say what the limit is and when it resets.
2026.09.15
Pomeroy’s bill citations read more cleanly, member pages show a sharper portrait, and meeting video links go where they should.
Pomeroy
Pomeroy’s bill chat answers now always name the bill’s sections in plain citation form, so the sections it cites open beside the conversation — including in conversations you saved earlier.
Members
Member pages now show a larger, sharper portrait.
Committees
A meeting page offers video only when there is a recording to play, and otherwise links straight to the official event page.
2026.09.14
Pomeroy now recognizes when a conversation no longer belongs where you’re continuing it, and your monthly access always reflects the best plan you held that month.
Pomeroy
If a conversation about a bill, member, or hearing no longer matches the page or office you’re asking from, Pomeroy tells you and keeps your question ready to send as a fresh conversation — nothing is charged against your monthly access.
Your monthly access now reflects the highest plan you used Pomeroy on that month — an upgrade takes effect immediately, and a downgrade or an expiring comp plan never shrinks what you can still use for the rest of the month you’re already in.
Members
The Members directory’s list of vacant House seats now reflects every seat currently apportioned to a state, so it never shows a seat that no longer exists after redistricting.
Plain-English summaries
A summary’s read on likely supporters and opponents now draws on the bill’s own earlier version from a prior Congress when one exists, and says nothing about a prior Congress when it doesn’t — never a guess.
Notes
A private note you’re editing is never lost — if a save takes a moment while you keep typing, your newer words are what gets kept, and a failed save now says so with a Retry.
Your workspace
The dashboard card for watched-bill and followed-member activity is now simply called "Activity," matching everything it already shows.
2026.09.13
Hearing transcripts read more cleanly, record-mode citations are only ever real references, and a colleague’s shared chat links to the analysis it actually drew on.
Hearings
Words and compounds that the printed record wrapped across a line — “U.S.-Mexico”, “state-of-the-art” — read as one word in the transcript, and quotation marks are set as quotation marks.
Pomeroy bill chat
In a record-mode answer, an aside in ordinary sentences is shown as text even when it happens to begin with a word like “Roll Call”; only a real reference becomes a link.
When a colleague opens a chat you shared, a citation of your saved Deep Analysis opens that analysis on its own page; a citation of your note stays private text.
Deep Analysis
When a generation cannot succeed until something changes — a transcript that has not been published, one too long to read — the page says so plainly instead of offering to try again.
2026.09.12
Record-mode answers are checked more strictly, and they say so when part of the record could not be reached. A lobbying citation that names a firm and a client links only when the two really filed together, a colleague’s saved chat links only to the shared record, and an answer that runs out of room says so instead of stopping short.
Pomeroy bill chat
A filing citation that pairs a lobbying firm with a client opens the Lobbying tab only when that firm filed for that client on this bill; a pairing the record does not hold is shown as plain text.
When a colleague opens a chat you shared, citations of your own saved analyses and note are shown as text rather than pointing at the colleague’s own documents; roll calls, filings and hearings still open.
If committee votes, the filing list, a related bill or the CRS summary could not be reached when you asked, Pomeroy now says the record could not be checked rather than reporting that nothing is on file.
An answer that runs out of room ends with a note saying so, and record answers have more room to begin with.
2026.09.11
Pomeroy can now answer bill questions from the whole record, not just the bill text — when you choose. A switch at the top of a bill chat adds cosponsors, votes, lobbying filings, related bills, summaries, hearings, and your own saved analyses and note, with every answer still bound to what Hilltelligence actually holds.
Pomeroy bill chat
A “Bill text + record” setting, off by default and chosen per conversation, lets Pomeroy draw on everything Hilltelligence holds about the bill; “Bill text only” keeps today’s behaviour.
Record answers cite what they use, and the citations open it: a roll call opens the vote, a filing opens the Lobbying tab already searched for that organization, a hearing opens its page, your saved Deep Analysis opens at the section named.
A “What Pomeroy can see” list under the switch shows which parts of the record are on file for the bill before you ask.
Lobbying is described the way the filings record it — who reported lobbying on the bill, through which quarter — and on a heavily lobbied bill Pomeroy can look up a specific organization by name.
Saved transcripts and exports note which answers were given with the record on.
2026.09.10
A hearing Deep Analysis now says exactly what it checked. Every name it attaches to a point is confirmed against the words it cites, lobbying facts read as hired or represented, and if part of the record could not be reached the analysis tells you rather than reading as silence.
Hearing Deep Analysis
A member or witness is credited with a point only when the passages it cites are their own words; a point that cannot be tied to the person it names is left out rather than shown under the wrong name.
A witness organization’s lobbying line now distinguishes the firms it hired from the parties it represented, and says “at least” when there are more filings than we counted.
When one part of the record — a member’s votes, a witness’s filings — could not be checked at the time, the analysis says so at the top, so “no record” is never mistaken for “nothing there.”
Organizations that file under their own name — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO — are matched to those filings, and a state, county or city that hires lobbyists is described as one.
2026.09.9
Deep Analysis comes to hearings. One click reads a whole hearing against the record: what each member pressed on beside their own votes and cosponsorships, what each witness represented beside the lobbying filings their organization made, how each bill fared in the room, and what has happened to those bills since.
Hearing Deep Analysis
Every hearing page with a published transcript now has a Deep Analysis tab. Subscribers click "Generate Deep Analysis" for a deeper read of that hearing, saved to their own account and, in an office, shared with colleagues.
Member Positioning sets what each member asked or asserted beside their record on the bills discussed — whether they sponsored or cosponsored them and how they voted in committee and on the floor.
Witness Interests sets what each witness argued beside the lobbying disclosures their organization has filed, including whether it filed on the very bills under discussion. Government witnesses are noted as such.
A bill-by-bill read shows which parts of each bill drew support, opposition, or questions, and from whom; What Happened Next follows each bill’s recorded actions since the hearing, and the analysis tells you when those have moved.
Every point names the people it rests on — click a name to jump to their words in the transcript. Hearing analyses appear in Pomeroy History and export to Word like any other analysis.
2026.09.8
Ask Pomeroy about a hearing. Every answer is drawn only from the published transcript, and every point names the person whose words it rests on — click a name to read them.
Pomeroy hearing chat
A hearing page now has a "Chat About This Hearing With Pomeroy" button. Ask what a witness recommended, what a member pressed on, or where the room disagreed, and get an answer grounded solely in that hearing's transcript.
Each answer names the people it draws on. Click a name to read exactly what they said beside the answer, or jump to their words in the full transcript. When a point rests on an exchange, every person in that exchange is named.
Pomeroy stays inside the transcript: if the hearing did not address a question, it says so rather than reaching for anything else it may know about the people involved.
Hearing chats are saved to Pomeroy History on your Dashboard, on their own tab, and the names in a saved chat still open the transcript.
A hearing chat uses your monthly Pomeroy access in the same way as a bill or member chat. It becomes available once a hearing's transcript has been published and indexed.
2026.09.7
Every published hearing transcript now comes with a plain-English summary — what the witnesses said, how members framed it, and the exchanges worth reading — with every point linked to the moment it came from.
Hearing summaries
A hearing page now opens on a Summary tab: the key points witnesses raised, the gist of members’ opening statements, the notable exchanges, and any bills that came up.
Every point in a summary is labelled with the person it came from. Click one and the transcript opens at their words, so you can check any claim against the official record in a single step.
Summaries are written for every published transcript at no cost to you. Any signed-in account can open five hearing summaries a month free — a separate allowance from bill summaries — and a subscription makes them unlimited.
A committee’s Hearings tab now shows a one-line summary beneath each hearing title, so you can tell at a glance which ones are worth opening.
Follow a committee and you’ll be told when a new hearing summary is published for it.
2026.09.6
Hearing transcripts now name more of the people speaking, carry every prepared statement in full, and cover hearings that were never published as text.
Hearing transcripts
Cabinet secretaries, governors, military officers, judges and other officials are now identified as speakers in their own right, wherever the official record gives them a title instead of a courtesy honorific.
Members of Congress speaking at their own committee’s hearing link to their member page.
Prepared statements submitted for the record are shown in full, under their own heading.
Nominees at confirmation hearings are now named from the hearing’s own record, so their testimony no longer reads as an unidentified speaker.
Hearings the Government Publishing Office never published as text are now readable too, taken from the official PDF and clearly marked as such.
A meeting and its published transcript are now one page instead of two. Once the transcript is printed, the meeting opens the hearing’s page, which carries the video, witnesses, documents and agenda as well.
Hearing pages now put the witness list, documents and agenda behind a Details tab, so the transcript starts near the top of the page instead of below them.
Every hearing page links to the official text and PDF, and a notice above the transcript asks you to check anything important against them.
Every published transcript from the current Congress is now available — the last of them finished loading.
2026.09.5
Every published committee hearing now has its own page, with the full transcript readable right there.
Hearing pages
Open any hearing from its committee’s Hearings tab, or from the meeting it came from, and read the official transcript right on the page — no need to open a separate document.
The transcript is re-set into ordinary paragraphs instead of the printed page’s fixed-width lines, so it reads like a document rather than a printout.
“Who Spoke” lists every member and witness who took part, with how many times they spoke; select anyone to jump to their first remarks and highlight every passage that is theirs.
Prepared and opening statements get their own list, so you can go straight to a witness’s written testimony.
When the hearing is tied to a meeting we hold, its video, witness list, and documents appear on the hearing page too.
2026.09.4
Meeting pages now carry the whole record: the video played in place, the witnesses and their statements, and every document the committee posted. And a committee’s Meetings and Hearings tabs tell one story.
Meeting pages
Watch the hearing or markup right on its page. The committee’s own video feed plays in place, with links to the source and to the Congress.gov event page.
See who testified. The witness list appears in the order the witnesses sat, each with their title and organization and, where the committee posted them, their written statement and biography.
Read the meeting’s documents in one place, grouped by type: the notice, the witness list, statements for the record, member statements, questions for the record and their answers, and the final printed transcript.
A postponed or rescheduled meeting says so beside its date.
Committees
The Meetings tab now includes the committee’s subcommittee meetings, each labeled with the subcommittee that held it, so the full committee’s page shows everything the committee did.
A past meeting shows its published transcript’s download links as soon as the printed hearing is available.
The Hearings tab lists every published transcript in hearing-date order, newest first, rather than a capped list in publication order.
2026.09.3
Every roll call now says plainly what it was on, including in the hours before the chamber publishes the bill.
Floor votes
A vote is described as procedural only when the motion itself is procedural. A passage or resolution vote whose bill the chamber has not yet published now says its measure is still to be linked, and votes taken on several measures at once say so.
2026.09.2
Floor vote records now complete themselves automatically, and new members appear in the record from their first vote.
Floor votes
Every roll call is now matched to the bill or resolution it concerns as soon as the chamber publishes that detail, and re-checked for a short window afterward so the record fills in on its own.
Member voting records
Newly sworn-in members now appear in the voting record from their first roll call. The member roster refreshes daily, in step with votes, and every roll call is verified against the chamber’s own count.
Plain-English summaries
New summaries now arrive more reliably and sooner.
2026.09.1
Follow a bill straight from its own page, and committee pages now include hearings, prints, communications, and history.
Following bills
Every bill page now has a Follow button — the same one members and nominations already have — so you can follow a single bill without building a list. List-based watching continues to work alongside it.
A new Bills section on your Dashboard’s Following card lists every bill you follow, with one-click Unfollow.
Committee pages
Committees now show Hearings, Prints, and Communications tabs alongside the existing Meetings, Bills, Votes, and Nominations tabs.
A committee’s Overview now includes its history — when it was established, and any name or jurisdiction changes since.
2026.09.0
Plain-English summaries now keep themselves current as a bill moves.
Plain-English summaries
A bill’s summary now refreshes itself overnight whenever the bill has genuinely moved — its status advanced, its text was amended, or its support shifted enough to change who is backing it.
When a summary is due for a refresh, a banner on the bill page says what changed, and a Regenerate button produces a fresh summary on the spot, at no cost to your Pomeroy access.
2026.08.2
Signed-in readers now land straight on their Dashboard, and the home page’s Sign In button is easier to reach.
The home page
Visiting hilltelligence.app while signed in now takes you straight to your Dashboard, and signing in from the home page lands you there too.
For signed-out visitors, the Sign In button now sits below the introduction beside the section links, where it is easy to reach on every screen size.
2026.08.1
A deeper historic voting record, a sharper Senate calendar, and refreshed alignment analysis.
The legislative record
Roll call vote pages now show the tally exactly as the chamber recorded it, and member-by-member records for the 2022 and 2024 sessions now cover every member who served, including those who have since left Congress.
The Senate Legislative Calendar now lists only the measures still eligible for floor consideration.
Analysis
Issue-area alignment has been recalculated on the expanded voting record.
2026.08.0
The first public release of Hilltelligence — the full platform, from the raw legislative record through the analysis layered on top of it.
Bills and analysis
Plain-English summaries of every significant bill — a headline, what the bill does, its key provisions, who it affects, likely supporters and opponents, and a fiscal note — built from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service analysis and the full bill text.
Passage probability for every bill, from introduction through enrollment, calibrated against real outcomes from past Congresses and shown as a step-by-step Path to Becoming Law.
Potential Cosponsors: for a bill still gathering support, the members most likely to sign on, ranked by legislative record, shared cosponsorship, and issue-area affinity, with likely opponents filtered out.
Deep Analysis: a premium read of a single bill across four lenses — how it compares to its predecessor and cross-chamber companion, which organizations are lobbying it, its partisan dynamics, and how it interacts with existing law.
Version Changes, summarizing what a bill gained or lost between prints — introduced to reported to engrossed.
Media Coverage, a sweep of recent reporting on a bill from a curated set of news outlets.
Pomeroy, the assistant
Chat about any bill, grounded strictly in that bill’s own text. Every answer cites the exact section and page, and clicking a citation opens the cited passage beside the conversation so you can verify it yourself.
Ask about any member, grounded strictly in their actual record — votes, sponsored and cosponsored bills, committees, caucuses, and staff — never in outside impressions.
A “Working with this Office” brief on each member, covering how the office engages, its legislative profile, and its coalition context.
Markup prep briefs for an upcoming committee meeting, covering the measures on the agenda.
Every conversation and analysis is saved to your workspace and can be reopened later.
The legislative record
Bills of the current Congress, with full text, actions, cosponsors, committee referrals, and related measures. Bill pages from the two previous Congresses remain reachable and are marked as archived.
Member profiles with committees, caucuses, sponsored and cosponsored legislation, voting record, staff rosters, district offices, and pass rates.
Member alignment: each member’s most-aligned colleagues, overall and within any single issue area, plus a head-to-head comparison of any two members.
Committees and subcommittees with full membership and party seniority, scheduled meetings, and filed reports.
Caucus rosters and full leadership boards, sourced from the caucuses’ own official rosters where they publish one.
Floor votes from both chambers back to January 3, 2021 — party splits, every member’s position, and Speaker elections presented as what they are.
Committee markup votes recovered from the reports committees file, including vote tables those reports published only as scanned images.
Presidential nominations, with committee referrals, actions, and the Senate votes that confirmed them.
The legislative schedule — House floor proceedings and committee meetings in both chambers.
Lobbying disclosure filings across more than 137,000 records, searchable by firm, bill, member, committee, or issue area.
Congressional Research Service reports, linked to the bills they analyze and browsable by issue area.
Your workspace
Lists of bills, members, and committees, with private notes on anything you save.
Watch a bill list and get alerted — in the app, by browser notification, and by email digest — when its bills gain cosponsors, change status, or move toward passage.
Briefing memos: export a bill list as a formatted Word document, each bill with its summary, key provisions, and stakeholder analysis.
Excel exports of filtered vote lists and lobbying filings.
Export everything you have created, and import it back, at any time.
Platform
Free accounts, Standard and Pro subscriptions, and one-time Access Packs.
Two-factor authentication required on every account.
Everything you write or generate — notes, memos, conversations, and analyses — is encrypted before it is stored.
A guided tour of the product, and an in-app help assistant that answers questions about how Hilltelligence works.
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