Subjects

What Decides That Something Belongs to a Subject

The grouping is this site's reading, not the Federal Register's and not the clerk's. Two rules decide it, and both are published so that they can be disagreed with.

A chapter of Project 2025 is assigned to a subject by the agencies and the matter it covers. Every proposal indexed from an assigned chapter is listed under that subject. The table below is the whole assignment, all thirty chapters, including the 7 that no subject claims.

Everything else is placed by its own title. An executive order, a proclamation or memorandum, an agency rule or a public law is under a subject because one of that subject's words appears in the title the document carries, and each subject page prints its word list and shows which word matched. A word in a title is a fact about the title rather than a finding about the document, and a document whose title uses none of the words is not placed at all. A title that carries words from two subjects puts the document on both pages, which is why the figure above counts listings and not documents.

Roll call votes are not placed here. They keep the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only. 3 subjects below have no counterpart in that grouping and carry no votes.

Floor remarks are not placed either. The 27,023 remarks indexed from the Congressional Record are filed under the headings the Record itself prints, which are mostly the names of measures, and matching those to a subject would be a third rule doing work the other two do not. They are searchable at search what was said.