Terms
The terms, in the same plain language as everything else here.
What this is
Congress Classroom is free lesson materials for social studies classes, built and kept by one person, not a company you're signing a contract with in the usual sense. Use it, print the handouts, adapt the lessons for your own classroom. That's what it's for.
Who this is for
The site itself has nothing for a student to sign into. The optional teacher account is meant for someone responsible for a classroom, old enough to hold an account in their own right. If you're a student, this site is something your teacher hands you, not something you sign up for.
Your account
An account needs a real email address you check and a password only you know. You're responsible for anything done from your account, so don't share the password, and tell us at hello@congressclassroom.com if you think someone else has it.
Using the site
Use it to teach. Don't try to break the class-code system, pull the site faster than a person would read it, or put anyone's real name, a student's most of all, into any field on this site. Group names come from a list, and the one field you type into, the class name, is for something like "Period 3". Putting a person's name there is the one thing we'd ask you not to do.
The record itself
The numbers on this site come from the bill-status files the Government Publishing Office publishes at govinfo.gov. We compute them ourselves, try hard to get them right, and say what we checked wherever a figure has a caveat worth knowing, but this is one person's reading of a public record, not a certified legal or civics authority. Use it to teach primary-source reading, not as the final word on what a bill did.
No promises about uptime
This is free, and it's built and kept by one person. We don't promise it'll always be up, that a lesson will still be at the same address next year, or that nothing will look different tomorrow than it did today. If you're building a unit around something on this site, keep your own copy of the handout.
Ending an account
You can stop using the site any time; there's nothing to cancel. You can also delete your account yourself from the bottom of your dashboard, with or without your classes. We can suspend or remove an account that misuses the site, in particular anything described under Using the site above, or that plainly doesn't belong to a teacher.
Wisconsin, plainly
Congress Classroom is run out of Waukesha, Wisconsin, and if a dispute about these terms ever needed a court, Wisconsin's is the one we'd expect to use.
If these change
We can update these terms as the site changes. A meaningful change gets a new date below; we won't backdate a change to cover something that already happened.
Contact
hello@congressclassroom.com. A real person reads it.
Last updated September 27, 2026.