| --- |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: '113' |
| path: data/usc-113-textversion.parquet |
| - split: '114' |
| path: data/usc-114-textversion.parquet |
| - split: '115' |
| path: data/usc-115-textversion.parquet |
| - split: '116' |
| path: data/usc-116-textversion.parquet |
| - split: '117' |
| path: data/usc-117-textversion.parquet |
| - split: '118' |
| path: data/usc-118-textversion.parquet |
| - split: '119' |
| path: data/usc-119-textversion.parquet |
| license: mit |
| language: |
| - en |
| --- |
| |
| # Dataset Description |
|
|
| This dataset is part of a family of datasets that provide convenient access to |
| congressional data from the US [Government Publishing Office](https://www.gpo.gov/) |
| via the [GovInfo Bulk Data Repository](https://www.govinfo.gov/developers). |
| GovInfo provides bulk data in xml format. |
| The raw xml files were downloaded using the |
| [congress](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress) repo. |
| Further processing was done using the |
| legisplain [legisplain](https://github.com/galtay/legisplain) repo. |
|
|
| # Hyperdemocracy Datasets |
|
|
| * [usc-billstatus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus) (metadata on each bill) |
| * [usc-textversion](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperdemocracy/usc-textversion) (different text versions of bills in xml) |
| * [usc-unified](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperdemocracy/usc-unified) (combined metadata and text version xml) |
|
|
|
|
| # TEXTVERSIONS (text for congresses 113-119) |
|
|
| * https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLS |
| * https://xml.house.gov/ |
| * https://github.com/usgpo/bill-dtd?tab=readme-ov-file |
|
|
| These xml files contain multiple text versions for each bill. |
|
|
|
|
| # Column Descriptions |
|
|
| | Column | Description | |
| |--------|-------------| |
| | tv_id | a unique ID for each text version (`{congress_num}-{legis_type}-{legis_num}-{legis_version}-{xml_type}`) | |
| | legis_id | a unique ID for each bill (`{congress_num}-{legis_type}-{legis_num}`) | |
| | congress_num | the congress number for the bill | |
| | legis_type | one of [`hr`, `hres`, `hconres`, `hjres`, `s`, `sres`, `sconres`, `sjres`] (see [govinfo - types of legislation](https://www.govinfo.gov/help/bills)) | |
| | legis_num | bills in each congress and of each type get an incrementing number as part of their ID | |
| | legis_version | version of bill text (see [govinfo - common versions of bills](https://www.govinfo.gov/help/bills)) | |
| | legis_class | one of [`bills`, `plaw`] | |
| | bulk_path | XML file path during bulk download | |
| | file_name | last part of bulk_path. used in joining to billstatus | |
| | lastmod | lastmod date during bulk download | |
| | xml_type | one of [`dtd`, `uslm`] | |
| | root_tag | the root xml tag. one of [`bill`, `resolution`, `amendment-doc`, `pLaw`]| |
| | tv_xml | contents of textversion XML file | |
| | tv_txt | a plain text version of the XML content | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| # Examples |
|
|
| The dataset is broken into splits (one split per congress number). |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| # load each split into a `DatasetDict` keyed on congress number |
| dsd = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-textversion") |
| |
| # load a single congress number into a `Dataset` |
| ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-textversion", split=117) |
| |
| # load all congress numbers into a single `Dataset` |
| ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-textversion", split="all") |
| ``` |
|
|
|
|
| # Congress Number to Date Mapping |
|
|
| | Congress Number | Years | Metadata | Text | |
| |-----------------|-------|----------|------| |
| | 119 | 2025-2026 | True | True | |
| | 118 | 2023-2024 | True | True | |
| | 117 | 2021-2022 | True | True | |
| | 116 | 2019-2020 | True | True | |
| | 115 | 2017-2018 | True | True | |
| | 114 | 2015-2016 | True | True | |
| | 113 | 2013-2014 | True | True | |
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