House Franking Explorer
What House offices send constituents at public expense: every mailer, email, text, ad and call script submitted to the franking commission for review. Filter by Congress, party and channel, and track topics over time.
Submissions per month
By party of the submitting office. Hover for monthly counts.
Topic tracker
Quarterly submissions whose title mentions each topic. Pick up to four.
Channel mix by year
Share of each year’s submissions by channel.
How much do members frank?
Members grouped by number of submissions.
Most active offices
Top 15 members by submissions.
Volume and ideology
Each dot is a member: DW-NOMINATE first dimension against submissions (log scale).
About the data. Before sending a mass communication at public expense, a House office can ask the Communications Standards Commission (the “franking commission”) for an advisory opinion. Each submission is counted once, by request date. Topics come from keyword matches in submission titles and are approximate. Party shares are raw counts, not adjusted for seat share. Monthly and topic charts run through December 2025.
Data and analysis: Annelise Russell, Martin School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Kentucky.