Frequently Asked Questions
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Gavelin is a searchable archive of state legislative proceedings. It turns committee hearings and floor sessions into text transcripts that show who was speaking, and puts them in the same search as bill records from all 50 states.
Bill records are searchable for all 50 states. Speaker-attributed hearing and floor transcripts are available for a growing number of states, and more are being added.
Every statement in a hearing or floor session is linked to the legislator or witness who made it. Search results show who spoke, in which committee, and on what date, instead of anonymous text.
Gavelin checks state sources for new hearings, floor sessions, and bills on a regular schedule and adds them after the state publishes them.
Yes. Searching on gavelin.ai is free, and a free account includes an API key for the MCP server.
Yes. Gavelin runs an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at mcp.gavelin.ai that lets Claude and other MCP-compatible tools search bills and hearing testimony directly. Setup instructions are on the Developers page.
Everything in Gavelin comes from public legislative records, including hearing video and audio, official transcripts, and bill information published by the states.