AgoraDMV builds open tools that track, compare, and explain U.S. congressional spending bills — so anyone can see what changed and where the money is headed.
Two open, public tools for making congressional appropriations legible.
Download bill XML from Congress.gov, normalize it into a clean section tree, and diff two versions — with section-move detection and dollar-amount extraction — rendered as a clear, navigable comparison report.
A browsable web app for following appropriations bills across their legislative stages, comparing versions side by side, and tagging the sections and topics you care about — with plain-language summaries of what changed.
Every year Congress writes the bills that fund the government — thousands of pages of dense legal text that change constantly as they move through committees, chambers, and conference. Almost no one outside Capitol Hill can follow what's actually happening to the money. AgoraDMV closes that gap.
No congressional background required. Public data, openly presented.
Built for outsiders, not insiders — and built to be checked.
Open-source tools and public data, presented as a civic resource for everyone.
The core skill is showing what changed — between versions, between chambers, and across years.
Not just text changes — actual dollar figures, surfaced line by line.
Everything links back to the official bill text. We cite; we don't editorialize.
AgoraDMV is built and maintained under Civic Tech DC, a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan nonprofit supporting open civic infrastructure. It grew out of the Congressional Tech project — building tools for congressional staff and increasing transparency for constituents.
Everything we build is open source. Read the code, file an issue, or contribute on GitHub.
Nonpartisan nonprofit supporting open civic infrastructure.