Procedure 10% Positioning 38% Claims 42% Reasoning 10%
Structure · 25 steps
Claims · 5
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Procedure · 19 words I don’t think I am going to need 11\1/2\ minutes, but I yield myself the balance of my time. Procedure Mr. Speaker, Procedure · 12 words I am going to begin by answering some of my colleague’s questions. Procedure Positioning · 14 words When will we find the stomach in Congress to hold hearings on this war? Positioning Procedure · 4 words I mentioned it already. Procedure Claims · 85 words The Committee on Foreign Affairs not too long ago held a hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.1 The ranking member, as I pointed out, was walking out of the room, not wanting to stay and respond. He left midway through the hearing and didn’t even want to stay to hear Secretary of State Rubio. We have held hearings. Democrats, unfortunately, wasted a lot of their time trying to make quips about Secretary Rubio’s shoes and other silly things really unbefitting members of that committee. Off point Reasoning · 10 words This resolution, in my opinion, is designed for two things. Positioning · 7 words I don’t believe it to be serious. Positioning Claims · 9 words I have seen the same language numerous times now. Positioning · 6 words It is designed for political points. Positioning Claims · 20 words This is a resolution stating remove all of these forces from hostilities. I gave you a comprehensive list of forces, Positioning · 53 words but you can’t tell me one that you want removed. That is just political theater. You are just saying you want something done, and either you haven’t thought through what you actually want done or there is really nothing you want done. You just want to pretend and say it. That is political. Positioning Reasoning · 44 words I think the second point of this resolution is to destroy our ability to pressure the Iranian regime by removing any offensive capabilities that we have in the region. I don’t think they want an ability for us to go out there and say: Claims · 58 words We are going to hold this blockade over Iran because Iran has been attacking our ships, not just in the year 2026, 5 but in the years 2025, 2024, and 2023, and well beyond. I have given the list on this floor numerous times of hundreds of attacks just in the 30 months before Epic Fury even took place.4 Reasoning · 13 words Sometimes the only choice you have is you are going to hit back. Procedure · 18 words There have been a lot of questions asked on this floor. What I would like to know is: Procedure Positioning · 33 words When are my Democrat colleagues going to have the stomach to hit back against an enemy that has been hitting us? Because, apparently, you don’t have it. Off point You are unwilling to do so, Positioning Claims · 89 words and you are willing to come to the floor of the House and say things so untruthful, such as that there weren’t any Americans killed prior to Epic Fury, to quote my colleague on the other side of the aisle, when just before that, I identified to my colleague three U.S. servicemembers who were killed, Sergeant Rivers, Sergeant Sanders, 2 3 and Sergeant Moffett, and a list of hundreds who were injured by Iranian attacks. All of those things were ignored so that they could say that there was nobody killed. Positioning · 51 words Why ignore those things? Why ignore something so serious as servicemembers, our brothers and sisters, our brothers-and sisters-in-arms, being killed? Why ignore that? It is because it doesn’t fit the political narrative. That is a sad thing. I have the stomach to hit back our enemies. Some of my colleagues don’t. Positioning Procedure · 8 words That is the question on the floor here: Procedure Positioning · 10 words Do you have the stomach to hit back our enemies, Positioning Claims · 16 words or are you going to throw up the flag of surrender and say: Off point Remove these forces. Positioning · 76 words We don’t know what they are. We don’t know what they are doing. We don’t know the capabilities that they bring. We don’t know the increased danger that it puts other forces in to remove them. We don’t know anything about it, but remove them because it is politically expeditious, instead of having the stomach to go out there and seek and destroy the enemies of the United States of America, as we trained to do. Positioning Mr. Speaker, Procedure · 8 words I yield back the balance of my time. Procedure
At a glance
Lost points for Positioning ×27 Off point ×23 Procedure ×8
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What the tags mean →
Signal · 49
35 of 58 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 don’t think I am going to need 11\1/2\ minutes,” 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 → “but I yield myself the balance of my time.” 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 → “I am going to begin by answering some of my colleague’s questions.” 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 → “When will we find the stomach in Congress to hold hearings on this war?” 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 mentioned it already.” 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 → “I don’t believe it to be serious.” 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 → “It is designed for political points.” 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 → “but you can’t tell me one that you want removed.” 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 just political theater.” 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 are just saying you want something done,” 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 → “and either you haven’t thought through what you actually want done or there is really nothing you want done.” 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 want to pretend and say it.” 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 political.” 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 → “There have been a lot of questions asked on this floor.” 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 → “What I would like to know is:” 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 → “When are my Democrat colleagues going to have the stomach to hit back against an enemy that has been hitting us?” 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 → “Because, apparently, you don’t have it.” 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 are unwilling to do so,” 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 → “Why ignore those things?” 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 → “Why ignore something so serious as servicemembers, our brothers and sisters, our brothers-and sisters-in-arms, being killed?” 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 → “Why ignore that?” 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 → “It is because it doesn’t fit the political narrative.” 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 sad thing.” 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 have the stomach to hit back our enemies.” 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 → “Some of my colleagues don’t.” 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 → “That is the question on the floor here:” 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 → “Do you have the stomach to hit back our enemies,” 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 → “We don’t know what they are.” 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 → “We don’t know what they are doing.” 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 → “We don’t know the capabilities that they bring.” 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 → “We don’t know the increased danger that it puts other forces in to remove them.” 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 → “We don’t know anything about it,” 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 → “but remove them because it is politically expeditious, instead of having the stomach to go out there and seek and destroy the enemies of the United States of America,” 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 → “as we trained to do.” 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 yield back the balance of my time.” Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Relevance · 60
23 of 58 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 → “When will we find the stomach in Congress to hold hearings on this war?” Restates a colleague’s question about hearings rather than addressing the resolution.
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 mentioned it already.” Pivots to the hearing topic instead of the resolution before the House.
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 Committee on Foreign Affairs not too long ago held a hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.” Describes a past committee hearing, a different subject from the war powers resolution.
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 ranking member,” Comment on the ranking member’s conduct, unrelated to the resolution.
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 → “as I pointed out, was walking out of the room, not wanting to stay and respond.” Political jab about a colleague leaving a hearing, not the resolution’s merits.
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 → “He left midway through the hearing and didn’t even want to stay to hear Secretary of State Rubio.” Continues the attack on the colleague’s conduct at the hearing.
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 have held hearings.” Asserts hearings were held, answering a side question rather than the resolution.
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 → “Democrats, unfortunately, wasted a lot of their time trying to make quips about Secretary Rubio’s shoes and other silly things really unbefitting members of that committee.” Attack on Democrats’ conduct at a hearing, unrelated to the resolution.
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 have been a lot of questions asked on this floor.” Frames the exchange as questions asked rather than addressing the resolution.
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 I would like to know is:” Sets up a political challenge rather than an argument on the resolution.
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 are my Democrat colleagues going to have the stomach to hit back against an enemy that has been hitting us?” Partisan challenge to Democrats’ willingness to fight, not the resolution’s content.
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 → “Because, apparently, you don’t have it.” Political insult in place of an argument on the resolution.
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 → “All of those things were ignored so that they could say that there was nobody killed.” Accusation about ignoring facts, a political point rather than the resolution.
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 → “Why ignore those things?” Rhetorical attack on opponents, not the resolution’s merits.
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 → “Why ignore something so serious as servicemembers, our brothers and sisters, our brothers-and sisters-in-arms, being killed?” Continues the political attack about ignored casualties.
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 → “Why ignore that?” Rhetorical repetition of the attack, unrelated to the resolution.
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 → “It is because it doesn’t fit the political narrative.” Attributes motives to opponents, a political point not about the resolution.
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 sad thing.” Commentary on opponents’ conduct rather than the resolution.
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 have the stomach to hit back our enemies.” Self-description in political contrast to colleagues, not the resolution.
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 → “Some of my colleagues don’t.” Partisan jab in place of an argument on the resolution.
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 the question on the floor here:” Frames the vote as a personal challenge rather than the resolution’s merits.
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 → “Do you have the stomach to hit back our enemies,” Rhetorical political challenge, not an argument on the resolution.
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 → “or are you going to throw up the flag of surrender and say:” Political framing of opponents as surrendering rather than the resolution itself.
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 · 100
0 of 58 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.
Nothing lost points.
Claims · 5
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 “The Committee on Foreign Affairs not too long ago held a hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio” The House Committee on Foreign Affairs recently held a hearing featuring Secretary of State Marco Rubio. search 2 “there weren’t any Americans killed prior to Epic Fury” A colleague on the other side of the aisle stated on the House floor that no Americans were killed prior to Epic Fury. search 3 “I identified to my colleague three U.S. servicemembers who were killed, Sergeant Rivers, Sergeant Sanders,” Three U.S. servicemembers named Sergeant Rivers, Sergeant Sanders, and Sergeant Moffett were killed prior to Epic Fury. search 4 “hundreds of attacks just in the 30 months before Epic Fury even took place” There were hundreds of Iranian-linked attacks on U.S. forces in the 30 months before the operation called Epic Fury. search 5 “Iran has been attacking our ships, not just in the year 2026,” Iran attacked U.S. ships in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. search
