AI-Drafted Bills Flood House Legislative Counsel With Fabricated Citations and Legal Errors

Congressional offices using ChatGPT and Claude to draft legislation are sending the House Office of Legislative Counsel bills with fabricated statute citations, wrong legal terms, and structural flaws. OLC lawyers now spend more time fixing these drafts than writing from scratch, Politico reported August 2026. One recurring error excludes DC and tribal nations by defining "state" as only the 50 states.