--- title: AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that... description: Congressional staffers and outside groups are increasingly drafting US legislation with Claude and ChatGPT, and the House Office of Legislative Counsel cannot... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws | daily.dev og:description: Congressional staffers and outside groups are increasingly drafting US legislation with Claude and ChatGPT, and the House Office of Legislative Counsel cannot... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wMh8lRlFN.png og:image:alt: AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Congressional staffers and outside groups are increasingly drafting US legislation with Claude and ChatGPT, and the House Office of Legislative Counsel cannot keep pace with reviewing it. One adviser to the office told Politico that fixing AI-drafted bills takes longer than writing them from scratch. Common errors include confusing tax credits, deductions, exclusions and grants, sloppy definitions that accidentally exclude DC or tribal nations, and incorrect statutory citations that introduce bugs into law. The office, with 78 attorneys handling a growing caseload (30,494 bills prepared in the 118th Congress versus 10,564 introduced), is itself testing Microsoft Copilot for legal research while its own NLP-based Comparative Print Suite avoids hallucinations by returning errors instead of guessing. No bill passed by either chamber is known to be entirely AI-crafted, but one representative faced criticism after an AI-generated amendment summary went out under her name. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why does AI struggle to draft legislation accurately? AI models often fail to distinguish between similar-sounding but legally distinct mechanisms like a tax credit, tax deduction, tax exclusion, or grant, and can miss nuanced definitions, such as defining a state as only the 50 states, which can unintentionally exclude Washington DC or tribal nations from a federal program. AI-generated citations to statutes are also frequently incorrect, introducing errors into the legal system. _Developers building legal or compliance AI tools can follow accuracy pitfalls like these on daily.dev._ ### How many bills does the House Office of Legislative Counsel handle per Congress? In the 118th Congress, the office prepared 30,494 bills, which is 188 percent more than the 10,564 that were actually introduced, along with 21,484 amendments, a 46 percent increase over the 114th Congress. The office had 78 attorneys and 23 support staff during the first session of the current Congress, with average attorney experience down 22 percent since the 116th Congress. _Anyone tracking how institutions scale review processes against AI-generated output can follow this on daily.dev._ ### Is Congress using AI tools itself to help draft or review legislation? Yes, the House Office of Legislative Counsel has organized a group to evaluate Microsoft Copilot for tasks like legal research, and it already runs its own tool called the Comparative Print Suite, which uses natural language processing to show how a bill would change the US Code. That tool avoids hallucinations by returning an error instead of a guess when it cannot confidently place a change. _Readers weighing internal versus commercial AI tooling for high-stakes review work can track cases like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Congress's AI bill pile-up: cure cancer, cage chatbots](https://daily.dev/posts/congress-s-ai-bill-pile-up-cure-cancer-cage-chatbots-q1dk0nnyw) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The AI policy that AI broke](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-policy-that-ai-broke-q54corbhr) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits](https://daily.dev/posts/how-courts-are-coping-with-a-flood-of-ai-generated-lawsuits-hedaevpng) · MIT Technology Review · 1 upvotes · 1 comments - [AI is becoming the record before we write the rules](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-becoming-the-record-before-we-write-the-rules-1qxh3pu0r) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn"},"datePublished":"2026-08-18T16:11:54.087Z","dateModified":"2026-08-18T16:26:57.198Z","description":"Congressional staffers and outside groups are increasingly drafting US legislation with Claude and ChatGPT, and the House Office of Legislative Counsel cannot...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2b78d09a834750f06358c04d98f14601?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2b78d09a834750f06358c04d98f14601?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,chatgpt,claude","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws-wmh8lrlfn#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why does AI struggle to draft legislation accurately?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"AI models often fail to distinguish between similar-sounding but legally distinct mechanisms like a tax credit, tax deduction, tax exclusion, or grant, and can miss nuanced definitions, such as defining a state as only the 50 states, which can unintentionally exclude Washington DC or tribal nations from a federal program. 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