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---
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: '113'
path: data/usc-113-unified.parquet
- split: '114'
path: data/usc-114-unified.parquet
- split: '115'
path: data/usc-115-unified.parquet
- split: '116'
path: data/usc-116-unified.parquet
- split: '117'
path: data/usc-117-unified.parquet
- split: '118'
path: data/usc-118-unified.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)
# UNIFIED (metadata + text for congresses 113-118)
## bill status
* https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS
* https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/blob/main/BILLSTATUS-XML_User_User-Guide.md
* https://github.com/usgpo/bulk-data/blob/main/Bills-XML-User-Guide.md
## text versions
* https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLS
* https://xml.house.gov/
* https://github.com/usgpo/bill-dtd?tab=readme-ov-file
# Column Descriptions
| Column | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| 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 |
| bulk_path | XML file path during bulk download |
| lastmod | lastmod date during bulk download |
| bs_xml | contents of billstatus XML file |
| bs_json| billstatus XML parsed into JSON |
| tvs | every text version for this bill |
# 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-unified")
# load a single congress number into a `Dataset`
ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-unified", split=117)
# load all congress numbers into a single `Dataset`
ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-unified", split="all")
```
# Congress Number to Date Mapping
| Congress Number | Years | Metadata | Text |
|-----------------|-------|----------|------|
| 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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