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Download Congressional Bills Project data
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Recent updates (03/01/2008)
New bills. All public and private bills of the 80-107th Congresses (1947-2002) have been uploaded. This update also includes a substantial of revised topic assignments. The vast majority of these changes apply to the pre-1973 bills. Researchers studying the post-1972 period should be minimally affected by these revisions.
New committee data. Sponsor committee membership and leadership information for the 80-92nd Congresses has been added, but not subcommittee level information. Sponsor committee information is not yet available for the 106th and 107th.
93rd Congress 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'