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Download Congressional Bills Project data
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Recent updates (05/11/2009)
New committee data. Sponsor committee membership and leadership information for the 80-107th have been updated. Sorry for the delay! The 108th and 109th should be available within the next couple of months.
Biographical data. This information is not available post 105th Congress because the ICPSR dataset has not be updated. We are exploring alternatives for collecting this info. If you have collected this information and would like to share....
93rd Congress bill passage data problems. The Congressional Research Service has informed us that the THOMAS website contains errors for the 93rd Congress. In particular, many more bills actually passed than the passedH and passedS variables in our dataset indicate. These variables should not be used for this Congress.
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1. Congressional Bills Corpus.
This large .tgz file includes bill titles, bill numbers, assigned policy agendas topics, and bill numbers only, 1947-1998. It was used in Hillard, Purpura and Wilkerson 2008, and was presented at the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LRECL, 2008).
Citation: Dustin Hillard, Stephen Purpura and John Wilkerson. 2008. "Automated Topic Classification for Mixed Methods Social Science Research." Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Winter 2008.
2. Complete Bills data by Congress.
Codebooks Variables codebook : Policy Agendas topic codebook
Citation: E. Scott Adler and John Wilkerson, Congressional Bills Project: (years of data), NSF 00880066 and 00880061. The views expressed are those of the authors and not the National Science Foundation.
Each of the files in the following table includes information about the bill, its progress and its sponsor. Please consult the codebooks above for more details. Note: Missing values are indicated by '-9'