Statehouse reporter · Political editor · Producer · Researcher
You file on deadline, and you cannot afford to get a quote wrong. USLege lets you search live hearing video by speaker or keyword, pings you the moment a bill moves or a vote is called, and pulls a sourced backgrounder in seconds. The story ships first, and it holds up.
Covering a statehouse means chasing a moving target with a shrinking desk. A committee says something that changes the day's lead, a bill jumps a chamber without notice, a floor vote gets called early, and an editor wants the backgrounder and the quote before the meeting lets out. Most of that verification still happens by hand: scrubbing an archived stream, refreshing a bill page, calling a source to confirm what was already said on the record.
Accuracy and speed are supposed to be a trade-off. USLege removes the trade-off. It watches the chambers and committees for you, transcribes the video so you can find the exact line by keyword, and assembles the context you need to write with confidence. You spend your time reporting and framing the story, not hunting for the tape.
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Search live searchable hearing video across the vast majority of states. Type a lawmaker's name or a phrase and jump straight to the moment it was said, with the timestamp and the exact wording, so the quote in your story is the quote on the record.
Follow the bills and issues on your beat across states at once. When something is filed, amended, or advances, it surfaces the moment it posts, so you are working the story before the press release goes out.
Pull a plain-language backgrounder on any bill in seconds: what it does, who is behind it, where it stands, and what changed. Drop it into your draft or brief an editor without reading forty pages of statute.
Get pinged the instant a vote is scheduled, rescheduled, or taken, and when a bill you follow changes status. Beat the wire on the outcome instead of learning it after the gavel.
Ask questions in plain English inside the AI tools you already write in and get answers grounded in real bills, hearings, and votes, not guesses. Verify a fact or draft a nut graf without leaving your workflow.
Full-text transcripts across all 50 states, plus bills, votes, and history in one searchable record. The line a legislator said two sessions ago is one query away instead of buried in a stream nobody can scrub.
Tell USLege the states, committees, lawmakers, and issues you cover. It watches all of them in real time so you stop refreshing bill pages and babysitting live feeds.
As things move, USLege alerts you and transcribes the hearing so you can search the video by keyword or speaker. The exact quote, the timestamp, and the context are ready before you open your doc.
Confirm the wording against the record, pull the backgrounder, and file with confidence. You break it first and you get it right, which is the only version of first that counts.
We used to lose an afternoon scrubbing hearing video for one quote, and we still worried we'd get it slightly wrong. Now I search the speaker's name, land on the exact line, and file with the timestamp. It changed how fast we can move.
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