Why Isn't My Bill Analyzed?

For the most part, The Briefing automatically selects bills for analysis. We can push through analyses when we are curious or when the issue is timely, but most analyses are executed automatically. That said, we apply some criteria to the automatic analysis. We skip bills for automatic analysis for the following reasons:

1. There has been no text version of the bill published yet. If there is no text available, there is very little for us to analyze yet.

2. The bill has not had any recent actions, and it has not been picked up by any of the policy area selections yet. The Briefing checks every bill for recent action on an ongoing basis. In addition, a certain number of slots per day are available for specific persona+analysis type combinations to expand coverage of particular policy areas of concern to that persona.

3. The bill has not yet achieved a sufficient LSI score to qualify for analysis. We generally at least do the Journalist Public Summary for all bills, but other persona+analysis combinations aren't particularly useful until the bill has progressed somewhat. So rather than produce a low-accuracy prediction too early, waste resources, and frankly, attention span, we set minimum LSI figures before we execute the analyses. Pay attention to the LSI score. The whole point is to distinguish the signal from the noise, and we use it for our own purposes.