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"Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 - Repeals, but continues for crop year 2013: (1) dir(...TRUNCATED) | "To reauthorize agricultural programs through 2018. 1. Short title; table of contents (a) In general(...TRUNCATED) | Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 |
"Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2013 - Amends the Financial Stability Act of 20(...TRUNCATED) | "To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to repeal certain designation authority of the Financi(...TRUNCATED) | Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2013 |
"Iran Export Embargo Act - Amends the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 to direct t(...TRUNCATED) | "To impose sanctions with respect to the Government of Iran. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as(...TRUNCATED) | Iran Export Embargo Act |
"Home Building Lending Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs each of the appropriate federal banking age(...TRUNCATED) | "To enable Federal and State chartered banks and thrifts to meet the credit needs of home builders i(...TRUNCATED) | Home Building Lending Improvement Act of 2013 |
"Comprehensive Student Loan Protection Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Educ(...TRUNCATED) | "To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reset interest rates for new student loans. 1. Short t(...TRUNCATED) | Comprehensive Student Loan Protection Act |
"Anti-Trust Freedom Act of 2013 - Provides that the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and provisions of (...TRUNCATED) | "To permit voluntary economic activity. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Anti-Trust Freed(...TRUNCATED) | Anti-Trust Freedom Act of 2013 |
"Conservation Reform Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of State to enter into an arrangement with (...TRUNCATED) | "To establish more efficient and effective policies and processes for departments and agencies engag(...TRUNCATED) | Conservation Reform Act of 2013 |
"Preserve the Waters of the United States Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Army and the Administ(...TRUNCATED) | "To preserve existing rights and responsibilities with respect to waters of the United States. 1. Sh(...TRUNCATED) | Preserve the Waters of the United States Act |
"Biomass Thermal Utilization Act of 2013 or the BTU Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, (...TRUNCATED) | "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include biomass heating appliances for tax credits av(...TRUNCATED) | BTU Act of 2013 |
"Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from implemen(...TRUNCATED) | "To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from implementing proposed policy changes that would(...TRUNCATED) | Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act |
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Cleaned JSON file with all Congressional legislation for the 113th - 118th Congresses containing 73,890 rows.
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
The dataset was pulled from the US Governments Bulk Data Repository. (https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/) The data consists of all congressional legislation and their summaries from the 113th Congress through the 118th Congress. The raw files were in the .xml format. The data was cleaned using custom data cleaning algorithms using Python. Once the data was cleaned it was organized within a Python dictionary data structure and exported to JSON. The JSON file contains 73,890 rows with title, bill text, and bill summary.
- Curated by: Taylor Hartman
- Funded by [optional]: Self Funded
- Shared by [optional]: Middle Tennessee State University
- Language(s) (NLP): English
- License: Apache-2.0
Dataset Sources [optional]
- Repository: https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/
- Paper [optional]: None
- Demo [optional]: None
Uses
NLP Summarization
Direct Use
Fine-tuning the model at https://huggingface.co/cheaptrix/MTSUSpring2025SoftwareEngineering used in the website https://www.whatsinthebill.ai
Out-of-Scope Use
Meant to be used for NLP summarization tasks
Dataset Structure
JSON with "title", "text", "summary" data members
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The data is from https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata where the Federal government provided the title, bill text, and bill summaries.
Source Data
Congressional bill, resolutions, concurent resolutions and join resolutions.
Data Collection and Processing
Cleaned using Python xml.etree.elementtree and re (regular expressions).
Who are the source data producers?
The source data is from the Federal government (House of Representatives and Senate)
Annotations [optional]
None.
Annotation process
None.
Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed]
Personal and Sensitive Information
None.
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
No bias from the cleaners. All rows were used that were usable. Rows with missing or corrupt data were removed.
Recommendations
Users should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the dataset. More information needed for further recommendations.
Citation [optional]
BibTeX:
@misc {taylor_hartman_2025, author = { {Taylor Hartman} }, title = { billsum-US_congress_and_house (Revision afac619) }, year = 2025, url = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/cheaptrix/billsum-US_congress_and_house }, doi = { 10.57967/hf/4926 }, publisher = { Hugging Face } }
Glossary [optional]
None.
More Information [optional]
None
Dataset Card Authors [optional]
Taylor Hartman
Dataset Card Contact
Taylor Hartmam
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