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Quick facts on the most pressing federal activity, executive orders, major court decisions, advancing bills, significant rules. Ranked by a transparent formula (what kind of action, how recent, which policy areas it touches), never by engagement or your behavior, and balanced so a busy week in one branch can't crowd out the others. Every topic shows why it's here and links to its official record.

All 14 Economy & trade 3 Health care 1 Energy & environment 2 Defense & foreign policy 3 Work & benefits 2

BillNovember 13, 2026

H.R. 11036, To require Federal agency heads to submit an annual assessment on staffing needs of information technology contracting officers and contracting officer's representatives, to require the heads to submit a plan on information technology acquisition workforce staffing and development using the assessments, and for other purposes.

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Why it's here: legislation · 2 days ago · touches work & benefits

Work & benefitsOpen

BillNovember 12, 2026

H.Res. 1660, Expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging the people of the United States to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Why it's here: legislation · 3 days ago · touches work & benefits

Work & benefitsOpen

Ranking computed 2026-11-14 15:56 UTC · refreshes about every 10 minutes.

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How this list is ranked

type + recency + salience: an executive order or Supreme Court decision outweighs a proposed rule; scores decay with a ~6-day half-life; keyword matches against a public category taxonomy add the rest. No single kind of action may take more than ~40% of the list, so an end-of-term opinion dump can't drown out Congress. No engagement signals, no personalization, every reader sees the same list.

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Pinned and curated items are labeled

Civibrief editors can pin a computed topic or add one the pipeline can't see yet. Those items are always marked Pinned or Curated, curation is never disguised as computation, and every curation action is recorded in the audit log.

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Where this is going

Next up is a source-vetting pipeline: automatic checks on each record's provenance before it can trend. Today, every topic already links to an official record you can verify yourself.

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