This page shows how members of Congress are performing on cost-of-living issues,
including affordability, wages, housing costs, rent, competition, price gouging,
and household economic pressure.
Purpose:
help citizens compare congressional action on cost-of-living legislation using clear,
objective, data-driven scoring. This page is intended to make legislative activity
visible, understandable, and easier to act on.
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Report Summary
Scope-Selected report view.
Year-Reporting year.
Issue Bills-Bills classified to this issue.
Rows-Members shown.
Cost of Living Rankings
Methodology
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References and Data Sources
Issue summary file:-
Leaderboard file:-
Data updated:-
Legislative source data: Congress.gov bill, sponsor, cosponsor, summary, and subject data imported through the Congress Report Card pipeline.
Scoring source: Voice to Congress Congress Report Card scoring model.
Classification source: automated issue classification plus manual review overrides.
State views require the matching state JSON file in
data/leaderboards, for example
cost_of_living_2025_nj.json.
