metadata
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
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 via the GovInfo Bulk Data Repository. GovInfo provides bulk data in xml format. The raw xml files were downloaded using the congress repo. Further processing was done using the legisplain legisplain repo.
Hyperdemocracy Datasets
- usc-billstatus (metadata on each bill)
- usc-textversion (different text versions of bills in xml)
- usc-unified (combined metadata and text version xml)
TEXTVERSIONS (text for congresses 113-118)
- 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) |
| 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) |
| 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).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |