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Recent updates (10/20/2010)

New Data. 110th bills are complete except for PAP topic, private or commemorative, and member biographical. The 106th-109th are now labeled for PAP topic and are complete except for member biographical. Earlier versions of the 110th House included errors due to new committee names. Those errors (Refer***, Mref***) have been corrected.

For additional information, please contact me at jwilker@u.washington.edu.

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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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.

1. Congressional Bills Data Server.

Click here to download bills from multiple Congresses, or to select specific variables for download. Developed by Kevin Shotwell

Bills Project Server

2. Complete Bills data by Congress.

Codebooks Variables codebook : Policy Agendas topic codebook

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'

Congress
House
Senate
Year
80th 80House.xls 80Senate.xls
1947-48
81st 81House.xls 81Senate.xls
1949-50
82nd 82House.xls 82Senate.xls
1951-52
83rd 83House.xls 83Senate.xls
1953-54
84th 84House.xls 84Senate.xls
1955-56
85th 85House.xls 85Senate.xls
1957-58
86th 86House.xls 86Senate.xls
1959-60
87th 87House.xls 87Senate.xls
1961-62
88th 88House.xls 88Senate.xls
1963-64
89th 89House.xls 89Senate.xls
1965-66
90th 90House.xls 90Senate.xls
1967-68
91st 91House.xls 91Senate.xls
1969-70
92nd 92House.xls 92Senate.xls
1971-72
93rd 93House.xls 93Senate.xls
1973-74
94th 94House.xls 94Senate.xls
1975-76
95th 95House.xls 95Senate.xls
1977-78
96th 96House.xls 96Senate.xls
1979-80
97th 97House.xls 97Senate.xls
1981-82
98th 98House.xls 98Senate.xls
1983-84
99th 99House.xls 99Senate.xls
1985-86
100th 100House.xls 100Senate.xls
1987-88
101st 101House.xls 101Senate.xls
1989-90
102nd 102House.xls 102Senate.xls
1991-92
103rd 103House.xls 103Senate.xls
1993-94
104th 104House.xls 104Senate.xls
1995-96
105th 105House.xls 105Senate.xls
1997-98
106th 106House.xls 106Senate.xls
1999-00
107th 107House.xls 107Senate.xls
2001-02
108th 108House.xls 108Senate.xls
2003-04
109th 109House.xls 109Senate.xls
2005-06
110th 110House.xls 110Senate.xls
2007-08
       

 

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