Bill Survival Game
Draft a bill, build a coalition, and guide it through Congress one decision at a time.
Classroom political environment
HouseRepublican 220-215
SenateRepublican 53-47
FilibusterActive
PresidentRepublican
Court6C / 3L / 1 swing
119th Congress (2025–2027)
🏛 Committee→🗳 House→🏛 Senate Cmte→🗳 Senate→🖊 President→⚖ Court if reviewed
1. Read the briefing
Understand the institution, pressure points, and people who matter.
2. Choose a strategy
Spend Political Capital and decide how you will move the bill.
3. See what happened
Review the actual vote math, meter changes, and reaction before moving on.
4. Handle surprises
Amendments and outside events appear between stages on their own screen.
Bill setup · Step 1 of 2
What are you trying to pass?
Give the bill a name and choose its policy area.
Bill setup · Step 2 of 2
How ambitious is the bill?
Scope changes your starting coalition, constitutional exposure, and Political Capital.
Your bill
StageBriefing
BriefingStrategyResultNext
Support50
Approval50
Const. Strength50
Scope—
16Capital
Political environment & current bill changes
House
Senate
Filibuster
President
Court
Staffer briefing
What to watch
Choose your strategy
What do you do?
Each option spends Political Capital. The visible meter changes are the direct effect of your choice; the actual institutional outcome is calculated after you submit it.
What happened
Your strategy played out
Between stages · Amendment
How do you respond?
Between stages · Outside event
How do you respond?
Consequence
Between stages
Your response changed the situation
Decision log
—Support
—Approval
—Const. Strength
—Score
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