Congressional Bill Corpus

This page provides a link to a dataset of 51,762 U.S. Congressional bills from the 103rd to 111th Congresses (1993 to 2010), each annotated with whether it survived (i.e., was recommended by) the Congressional committee process. These data were prepared by Tae Yano.

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Further Reading

Please cite this paper if you write any papers involving the use of the data above. The data includes data released by other researchers; details are provided in the README file.

Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees. Tae Yano, Noah A. Smith, and John D. Wilkerson. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2012), Montréal, Québec, June 2012.

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by DARPA grant N10AP20042.