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The average of Signal, Relevance and Clarity is 59. The grade is held to 39, 30 above Relevance. 39 / 100, held down by Relevance
Signal
70 / 100
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Relevance
9 / 100
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Respect
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Clarity
97 / 100
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Procedure 9% Positioning 19% Claims 60% Reasoning 3% The ask 8%
Structure · 13 steps
Claims · 6
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Mr. Speaker, Procedure · 22 words I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let me just say to my friend, the chair of the Rules Committee: Procedure Positioning · 7 words You can’t fool people. You just can’t. Positioning Claims · 31 words I mean, people go to the supermarket. They have to pay their utility bills. They have to pay their rent. People are trying to see where they can afford a home. Positioning · 34 words I mean, they know what the reality is. Unearned certainty To somehow say they are being beautiful, I mean, come on. That is ludicrous. That is assuming that people don’t believe their real-life experiences every day. Positioning Claims · 28 words She talks about the most productive Congress. I mean, 104 laws were passed in this Republican Congress.1 When the Democrats were last in charge, we passed 365 laws.2 Reasoning · 8 words The issue is what do these laws do. Claims · 48 words We passed bills to try to expand healthcare for people. We passed bills to try to make sure that children had access to Head Start and to daycare. We passed bills to actually protect our environment. We passed bills to try to keep the world out of war. Positioning · 14 words That is a big contrast to what we are seeing in this Republican Congress. Positioning Procedure · 5 words I would just say this: Procedure Claims · 65 words What Donald Trump has done with the acquiescence of the Republican majority is they have added a new tax on average people, close to $4,000.3 There is a $4,000 Trump tax on almost every family in this country.4 The people who don’t feel it are the ones who benefited from the trillions of dollars in tax cuts given to millionaires and billionaires and big corporations.5 Off point Mr. Speaker, The ask · 23 words I ask unanimous consent also to include in the Record an article from Politico titled, ``Amazon’s tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts.’’6
At a glance
Lost points for Off point ×23 Positioning ×7 Procedure ×3 Unearned certainty Off topic Only 9% of this speech directly addressed the bill under debate.
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Signal · 70
10 of 34 deductions are Signal
Signal checks whether every part makes a point, gives a reason, or asks for action. A low score means the speaker filled time with fluff, pleasantries, or attacks.
Procedure Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business. What the tags mean → “I yield myself such time as I may consume.” Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Procedure Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business. What the tags mean → “Let me just say to my friend, the chair of the Rules Committee:” Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “You can’t fool people.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “You just can’t.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “I mean, they know what the reality is.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “To somehow say they are being beautiful, I mean, come on.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “That is ludicrous.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “That is assuming that people don’t believe their real-life experiences every day.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Positioning Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it. What the tags mean → “That is a big contrast to what we are seeing in this Republican Congress.” Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Procedure Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business. What the tags mean → “I would just say this:” Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Relevance · 9
23 of 34 deductions are Relevance
Relevance checks whether the speaker stays on topic and answers the question asked. A low score means the speaker dodged the issue. Measured against the bill under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “You can’t fool people.” A general rhetorical point about fooling people with no connection to the mining bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “You just can’t.” Continues the same unrelated rhetorical point.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “I mean, people go to the supermarket.” Groceries and cost of living are not addressed by the rule under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “They have to pay their utility bills.” Utility bills are unrelated to the bill under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “They have to pay their rent.” Rent is unrelated to the bill under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “People are trying to see where they can afford a home.” Home affordability is unrelated to the bill under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “I mean, they know what the reality is.” A general aside about people’s lived reality, not the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “To somehow say they are being beautiful, I mean, come on.” A jab at the other side’s characterization, not a point on the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “That is ludicrous.” Continues the same unrelated exchange.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “That is assuming that people don’t believe their real-life experiences every day.” Continues the same unrelated point about people’s beliefs.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “She talks about the most productive Congress.” Pivots to a debate about congressional productivity, not the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “I mean, 104 laws were passed in this Republican Congress.” A statistic about laws passed, unrelated to the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “When the Democrats were last in charge, we passed 365 laws.” A partisan comparison of past congresses, unrelated to the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “The issue is what do these laws do.” Raises the content of laws generally, not the bill under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “We passed bills to try to expand healthcare for people.” Healthcare bills from a past congress, unrelated to the mining bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “We passed bills to try to make sure that children had access to Head Start and to daycare.” Head Start and daycare bills, unrelated to the mining bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “We passed bills to actually protect our environment.” Past environmental bills, not the bill under debate.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “We passed bills to try to keep the world out of war.” A general foreign policy claim, unrelated to the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “That is a big contrast to what we are seeing in this Republican Congress.” A partisan contrast with the Republican Congress, not the bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “I would just say this:” Introduces an unrelated topic.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “What Donald Trump has done with the acquiescence of the Republican majority is they have added a new tax on average people, close to $4,000.” Criticism of Trump tax policy, unrelated to the mining bill.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “There is a $4,000 Trump tax on almost every family in this country.” Repeats the unrelated tax claim.
Off point Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate. What the tags mean → “The people who don’t feel it are the ones who benefited from the trillions of dollars in tax cuts given to millionaires and billionaires and big corporations.” Further discussion of tax cuts, unrelated to the bill.
Respect · no score
Not checked: graded before this measurement existed. Excluded from the average.
Respect checks whether the speaker argued with people’s positions and records rather than attacking the people: insults, mockery, or bad motives assigned to them. Criticism of what someone did, however strong, is not marked.
Clarity · 97
1 of 34 deductions are Clarity
Clarity checks for plain speaking, clear ownership of actions, and honest limits on certainty. A low score means vague promises or evasive language.
Unearned certainty Something stated as certain with nothing to back it. What the tags mean → “they know what the reality is” Asserts what people know as fact without any source or evidence offered.
Claims · 6
This list shows the factual statements you can check for yourself: the words as said, and the claim restated to stand on its own.
1 “104 laws were passed in this Republican Congress” The Republican-controlled Congress of 2026 had passed 104 laws as of this speech. search 2 “When the Democrats were last in charge, we passed 365 laws” The last Democratic-controlled Congress (117th, 2021-2023) passed 365 laws. search 3 “added a new tax on average people, close to $4,000” Republican legislation supported by the Trump administration imposed a new cost on average families of close to $4,000. search 4 “There is a $4,000 Trump tax on almost every family in this country” Almost every family in the United States faces a roughly $4,000 cost from Trump administration tax policy. search 5 “the trillions of dollars in tax cuts given to millionaires and billionaires and big corporations” Trump-era tax legislation included trillions of dollars in tax cuts benefiting millionaires, billionaires, and large corporations. search 6 “an article from Politico titled, ``Amazon’s tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts.’’” Politico published an article titled “Amazon’s tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts.” search
