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--- |
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configs: |
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- config_name: default |
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data_files: |
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- split: '108' |
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path: data/usc-108-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '109' |
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path: data/usc-109-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '110' |
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path: data/usc-110-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '111' |
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path: data/usc-111-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '112' |
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path: data/usc-112-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '113' |
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path: data/usc-113-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '114' |
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path: data/usc-114-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '115' |
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path: data/usc-115-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '116' |
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path: data/usc-116-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '117' |
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path: data/usc-117-billstatus.parquet |
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- split: '118' |
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path: data/usc-118-billstatus.parquet |
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license: mit |
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language: |
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- en |
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# Dataset Description |
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This dataset is part of a family of datasets that provide convenient access to |
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congressional data from the US [Government Publishing Office](https://www.gpo.gov/) |
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via the [GovInfo Bulk Data Repository](https://www.govinfo.gov/developers). |
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GovInfo provides bulk data in xml format. |
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The raw xml files were downloaded using the |
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[congress](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress) repo. |
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Further processing was done using the |
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legisplain [legisplain](https://github.com/galtay/legisplain) repo. |
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# Hyperdemocracy Datasets |
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* [usc-billstatus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus) (metadata on each bill) |
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* [usc-textversion](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperdemocracy/usc-textversion) (different text versions of bills in xml) |
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* [usc-unified](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperdemocracy/usc-unified) (combined metadata and text version xml) |
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# BILLSTATUS (metadata for congresses 108-118) |
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* https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS |
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* https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/blob/main/BILLSTATUS-XML_User_User-Guide.md |
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* https://github.com/usgpo/bulk-data/blob/main/Bills-XML-User-Guide.md |
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These xml files contain metadata about each bill and |
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pointers to different xml files that contain various text versions of each bill. |
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# Column Descriptions |
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Hyperdemocracy column descriptions. |
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| Column | Description | |
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|--------|-------------| |
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| legis_id | a unique ID for each bill (`{congress_num}-{legis_type}-{legis_num}`) | |
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| congress_num | the congress number for the bill | |
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| legis_type | one of [`hr`, `hres`, `hconres`, `hjres`, `s`, `sres`, `sconres`, `sjres`] (see [govinfo - types of legislation](https://www.govinfo.gov/help/bills)) | |
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| legis_num | bills in each congress and of each type get an incrementing number as part of their ID | |
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| bulk_path | XML file path during bulk download | |
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| lastmod | lastmod date during bulk download | |
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| bs_xml | contents of billstatus XML file | |
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| bs_json| billstatus XML parsed into JSON | |
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See the [BILLSTATUS XML User Guide](https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/blob/main/BILLSTATUS-XML_User_User-Guide.md) for descriptions of the other columns. |
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# Examples |
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The dataset is broken into splits (one split per congress number). |
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```python |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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# load each split into a `DatasetDict` keyed on congress number |
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dsd = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus") |
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# load a single congress number into a `Dataset` |
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ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus", split=117) |
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# load all congress numbers into a single `Dataset` |
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ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus", split="all") |
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``` |
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# Congress Number to Date Mapping |
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| Congress Number | Years | Metadata | Text | |
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|-----------------|-------|----------|------| |
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| 118 | 2023-2024 | True | True | |
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| 117 | 2021-2022 | True | True | |
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| 116 | 2019-2020 | True | True | |
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| 115 | 2017-2018 | True | True | |
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| 114 | 2015-2016 | True | True | |
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| 113 | 2013-2014 | True | True | |
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| 112 | 2011-2012 | True | False | |
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| 111 | 2009-2010 | True | False | |
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| 110 | 2007-2008 | True | False | |
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| 109 | 2005-2006 | True | False | |
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| 108 | 2003-2004 | True | False | |
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