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"date": "2003-01-08T05:00:00Z",
"type": "Introduced in House",
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] | House | 2003-01-08 | [] | [] | H | 2023-01-15T21:04:32Z |
108-hconres-10 | 108 | hconres | 10 | data/108/bills/hconres/hconres10/fdsys_billstatus.xml | 2024-01-19 16:42:01 | "<billStatus>\n <version>\n 3.0.0\n </version>\n <bill>\n <number>\n 10\n </number>\n <updateD(...TRUNCATED) | {"actions":[{"action_code":null,"action_date":"2003-01-08","committees":[{"activities":[],"chamber":(...TRUNCATED) | [] | [] | "Condemning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for its failure to comply with the Treaty on t(...TRUNCATED) | 10 | [{"bill_text_version_code":null,"bill_text_version_name":null,"chamber_code":null,"chamber_name":nul(...TRUNCATED) | [{"action_code":null,"action_date":"2003-01-08","committees":[{"activities":[],"chamber":null,"name"(...TRUNCATED) | {"bioguide_id":"H000324","by_request_type":null,"district":"23","first_name":"ALCEE","full_name":"Re(...TRUNCATED) | 3.0.0 | 108 | ["Armed Forces and National Security","Arms control agreements","Arms control verification","Congres(...TRUNCATED) | HCONRES | [{"action_date":"2003-01-08","action_desc":"Introduced in House","text":"Calls on North Korea to: (1(...TRUNCATED) | [] | [{"activities":[{"date":"2003-01-08T15:05:20Z","name":"Referred to"}],"chamber":"House","name":"Fore(...TRUNCATED) | [{"bioguide_id":"D000096","district":"7","first_name":"DANNY","full_name":"Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-I(...TRUNCATED) | null | International Affairs | 2023-01-15T21:04:33Z | {"action_code":null,"action_date":"2003-01-08","committees":[],"source_system":null,"text":"Referred(...TRUNCATED) | [] | [
{
"date": "2003-01-08T05:00:00Z",
"type": "Introduced in House",
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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)
BILLSTATUS (metadata for congresses 108-119)
- 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
These xml files contain metadata about each bill and pointers to different xml files that contain various text versions of each bill.
Column Descriptions
Hyperdemocracy 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) |
| 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 |
| * | all top level keys of the bs_json object also get their own column |
See the BILLSTATUS XML User Guide for descriptions of the other columns.
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-billstatus")
# load a single congress number into a `Dataset`
ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus", split=117)
# load all congress numbers into a single `Dataset`
ds = load_dataset(path="hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus", 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 |
| 112 | 2011-2012 | True | False |
| 111 | 2009-2010 | True | False |
| 110 | 2007-2008 | True | False |
| 109 | 2005-2006 | True | False |
| 108 | 2003-2004 | True | False |
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