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Ask About How Government Works, or What Something Means

This is the one place in The Record where AI generates answers directly. It draws on this app's own sourced data, cites what it uses, and is built to say “I don't know” rather than invent a fact, quote, or source. Every other page in this app is built entirely from structured data and primary sources — not AI.

Demo mode: No live AI model is connected in this environment, so answers come from a small library of sourced explainers plus retrieval over The Record's own data — never invented. Set an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable to enable live conversational answers; see the README.

Hi — I can explain how government processes work, summarize a bill, or lay out the strongest arguments on different sides of a debate. What would you like to know?