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GovLense · The U.S. Congress, in your pocket
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A pocket-sized newsroom For everyday Americans

Congress,
in your pocket. A real-time, newspaper-style window into the House and Senate — bills, members, committees, votes — without the lobbyist budget.

GovLense pulls from authoritative public sources and normalizes everything into one calm, editorial reading experience. The result is the depth of a staffer's briefing — written for everybody else.

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Free Free. No fees. No data selling.
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Sources Built entirely on the public record
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Coverage The whole U.S. Congress — Senate & House
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Follow Bills, amendments, members, committees
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Made for Everyday Americans, not lobbyists
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Available iOS & Android
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Read The depth of a staffer's briefing
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Free Free. No fees. No data selling.
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Sources Built entirely on the public record
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Coverage The whole U.S. Congress — Senate & House
·
Follow Bills, amendments, members, committees
·
Made for Everyday Americans, not lobbyists
·
Available iOS & Android
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Read The depth of a staffer's briefing
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SectionI

Four desks. One newsroom.

Desk I — The Floor

Today, in motion.

A weekly tally and a swipeable deck of featured bills worth knowing about right now — with your local representative and both senators surfaced automatically.

Desk II — Congress

The room itself.

Toggle Senate or House. See party composition, leadership, tenure, age, attendance, and the partisan ideology gap on a DW-NOMINATE scale.

Desk III — Your Desk

Things you follow.

Bills, amendments, members, committees — all in one place, grouped and timestamped, with a quiet "new activity" indicator when something moves.

Desk IV — Search

Find anything.

Instant search across every bill, amendment, member, committee, and roll-call vote in the public record.

SectionII

Sourced from the official record.

GovLense is built entirely on the public record. Everything you read in the app comes from Congress.gov and its API, alongside a handful of open-source government data repositories maintained by the civic-tech community.

No leaks. No anonymous sources. No editorializing. We pull from the official feeds, normalize the data into one calm reading experience, and surface it without a thumb on the scale.

  • Congress.govOfficial API
  • @unitedstatesOpen-source civic data
  • VoteviewIdeology scores
SectionIII

For people who want more than headlines.

The constituent

Track your representative.

See exactly how your House member and both senators voted this week — and how often they vote with their party. Not vibes. The roll call.

"I want to know if my rep showed up."
The bill-watcher

Follow what matters to you.

Pin a single bill — or twenty. GovLense quietly notes new activity on each, so you'll know the day it clears committee, gets amended, or hits the floor.

"Tell me when HR 4421 actually moves."
The civic-curious

Understand the room.

Composition, age, tenure, attendance, ideology gap. The kind of texture you can normally only get if you read political-science papers for fun.

"How divided is Congress, really?"

Frequently asked.

Is GovLense free?+
Yes. The app is free on iOS and Android. We don't sell data. Following items is local to your device.
Where does the data come from?+
Four official, public sources — Congress.gov, the @unitedstates legislator and roll-call repositories, and Voteview's DW-NOMINATE scores. We don't editorialize the data; we just present it.
How fresh is "real-time"?+
New votes and bill activity refresh every two hours. Member data twice a day. Featured-bill scoring runs hourly. Ideology scores update weekly.
Is GovLense affiliated with any party?+
No. We use blue and red because Congress does. Our job is to surface the public record clearly, not to take sides on what's in it.
Will my follows sync between devices?+
Today, follows live on the device. Optional account-based sync is on the roadmap, off by default — you'll always own the data and be able to export or wipe it.
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The whole record. In one calm app.

Coming to iOS and Android. Free and quiet. Read the room — then read the bill.

Coming soon · iOS & Android