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- text: bill text.
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- bill_status: full bill status of the bill.
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### Data Splits
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Often, the language of a bill may not directly explain the potential impact of the legislation.
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This dataset collects the text of bills and metadata that can identify and categorize bills.
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As a result, this dataset collects bill text; it also provides text as a list of sections with the text and header.
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[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
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#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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The data consists of the US
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#### Who are the source language producers?
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#### Who are the annotators?
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### Personal and Sensitive Information
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### Social Impact of Dataset
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### Discussion of Biases
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### Licensing Information
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Bill and
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### Citation Information
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- text: bill text.
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- bill_status: full bill status of the bill.
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- policy_area: the policy area that bill relates to.
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- legislative_subjects: list of the legislative subjects that bill relates to.
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### Data Splits
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Often, the language of a bill may not directly explain the potential impact of the legislation.
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This dataset collects the text of bills and metadata that can identify and categorize bills.
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As a result, this dataset collects bill text; it also provides text as a list of sections with the text and header.
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The *policy area* and *legislative subjects* are categories assigned to each bill by specialist researchers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. With these labels, it should be possible to train models to autoclassify bills.
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[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
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#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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The data consists of the US congressional bills that were collected from the [govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/) service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license.
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#### Who are the source language producers?
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#### Who are the annotators?
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The *policy area*, *legislative subjects* and other annotations were produced by analysts at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
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### Personal and Sensitive Information
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### Social Impact of Dataset
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These are legislative proposals in the US Congress.
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### Discussion of Biases
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### Licensing Information
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Bill and metadata information are public and are unlicensed, as it is data produced by government entities. The collection and enhancement work that we provide for this dataset, to the degree it may be covered by copyright, is released under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
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### Citation Information
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