AI-Drafted Bills Swamp House Counsel With Bogus Citations and Legal Errors

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