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Unnamed: 0 int64 0 11.4k	index int64 0 15.2k	id stringlengths 3 11	policy_areas stringlengths 3 43	cur_summary stringlengths 18 105k ⌀	cur_text stringlengths 325 6.47M	title stringlengths 5 656	titles_official stringlengths 25 1.18k	titles_short stringlengths 8 3.77k ⌀	sponsor_name stringlengths 13 47	sponsor_party stringclasses 3 values	sponsor_state stringlengths 2 2
0	11,047	H.R.4536	Social Welfare	Welfare for Needs not Weed Act This bill prohibits the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds on electronic benefit transfer transactions in any establishment that offers marijuana for sale.	To prohibit assistance provided under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families from being accessed through the use of an electronic benefit transfer card at any store that offers marijuana for sale. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent...	Welfare for Needs not Weed Act	To prohibit assistance provided under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families from being accessed through the use of an electronic benefit transfer card at any store that offers marijuana for sale.	Welfare for Needs not Weed Act	Rep. Rice, Tom	R	SC
1	2,951	S.4404	Armed Forces and National Security	Homeland Acceleration of Recovering Deposits and Renewing Onshore Critical Keystones Act of 2022 or the HARD ROCK Act of 2022 This bill authorizes the National Defense Stockpile Manager (the Department of Defense) to take certain actions to address industrial base shortfalls.	To authorize certain actions to address domestic industrial base shortfalls, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Homeland Acceleration...	HARD ROCK Act of 2022	A bill to authorize certain actions to address domestic industrial base shortfalls, and for other purposes.	HARD ROCK Act of 2022 Homeland Acceleration of Recovering Deposits and Renewing Onshore Critical Keystones Act of 2022	Sen. Ernst, Joni	R	IA
2	4,396	S.4	Government Operations and Politics	John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 This bill establishes new criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions must obtain preclearance before changes to voting practices may take effect. Preclearance is the process of receiving preapproval from the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the U.S...	To amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTI...	John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021	A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.	John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act Frank Harrison, Elizabeth Peratrovich, and Miguel Trujillo Native American Voting Rights Act of 2021	Sen. Leahy, Patrick J.	D	VT
3	2,777	S.3656	Health	Reducing Hereditary Cancer Act of 2022 This bill provides for Medicare coverage of germline mutation testing for individuals with a personal or family history of a hereditary cancer gene mutation or suspected history of hereditary cancer, as well as for associated coverage of risk-reducing surgeries and screenings.	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide hereditary cancer genetic testing for individuals with a history of a hereditary cancer gene mutation in a blood relative or a personal or ancestral history suspicious for hereditary cancer, and to provide coverage of certain cancer screenings or preven...	Reducing Hereditary Cancer Act of 2022	A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide hereditary cancer genetic testing for individuals with a history of a hereditary cancer gene mutation in a blood relative or a personal or ancestral history suspicious for hereditary cancer, and to provide coverage of certain cancer screenings or prevent...	Reducing Hereditary Cancer Act of 2022	Sen. Murkowski, Lisa	R	AK
4	3,528	S.192	Public Lands and Natural Resources	"River Democracy Act of 2021\nThis bill designates specified river segments, primarily in Oregon, as(...TRUNCATED)	"To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain river \nsegments in the State of Orego(...TRUNCATED)	River Democracy Act of 2021	"A bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain river segments in the State of (...TRUNCATED)	River Democracy Act of 2021	Sen. Wyden, Ron	D	OR
5	3,479	S.1426	Taxation	"Parent Tax Credit Act\nThis bill allows an eligible individual a tax credit of $6,000 ($12,000 in t(...TRUNCATED)	"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a refundable \n tax (...TRUNCATED)	Parent Tax Credit Act	"A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a refundable tax credit for parents.(...TRUNCATED)	Parent Tax Credit Act	Sen. Hawley, Josh	R	MO
6	10,134	H.R.8131	Commerce	"Increasing Competition for Medical Residency Act\nThis bill repeals the antitrust exemption for gra(...TRUNCATED)	"To amend the Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004 to repeal the antitrust \n exemption applicable to(...TRUNCATED)	Increasing Competition for Medical Residency Act	"To amend the Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004 to repeal the antitrust exemption applicable to gra(...TRUNCATED)	Increasing Competition for Medical Residency Act	Rep. Spartz, Victoria	R	IN
7	11,947	H.R.4921	Social Welfare	"Strengthening Social Security Act of 2021\nThis bill expands benefits, and increases specified taxe(...TRUNCATED)	"To improve the retirement security of American families by \n strengthening Soc(...TRUNCATED)	Strengthening Social Security Act of 2021	To improve the retirement security of American families by strengthening Social Security.	Strengthening Social Security Act of 2021	Rep. Sánchez, Linda T.	D	CA
8	8,772	H.R.1425	Taxation	"This bill repeals the limitation on the amount of distilled spirits excise taxes covered over (paid(...TRUNCATED)	"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on \n the cover over of distil(...TRUNCATED)	"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the cover over of distilled (...TRUNCATED)	"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the cover over of distilled (...TRUNCATED)	"Official Titles - House of Representatives\nOfficial Title as Introduced\nTo amend the Internal Rev(...TRUNCATED)	Del. Plaskett, Stacey E.	D	VI
9	11,607	H.R.7419	Crime and Law Enforcement	"Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2022\nThis bill reauthorizes for FY2022-FY2028 an(...TRUNCATED)	"To reauthorize the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, and for other \n (...TRUNCATED)	Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2022	To reauthorize the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, and for other purposes.	Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2022	Rep. Costa, Jim	D	CA

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Dataset Card for Dataset US 117th Congress Bills

Dataset Summary

The US 117th Congress Bills dataset is a collection of all of the House Resolutions, House Joint Resolutions, Senate Resolutions, and Senate Joint Resolutions introduced during the 117th Congress (2021-2022). The task is to classify each bill into one of thirty-three major policy areas. There are 11,389 bills in the training split and 3,797 bills in the testing split.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

text-classification: The goal is to classify each bill into one of thirty-three major policy areas. The dataset contains both a text label (policy_areas) and a class integer (y).

These classes correspond to:

0: Agriculture and Food
1: Animals
2: Armed Forces and National Security
3: Arts, Culture, Religion
4: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
5: Commerce
6: Congress
7: Crime and Law Enforcement
8: Economics and Public Finance
9: Education
10: Emergency Management
11: Energy
12: Environmental Protection
13: Families
14: Finance and Financial Sector
15: Foreign Trade and International Finance
16: Government Operations and Politics
17: Health
18: Housing and Community Development
19: Immigration
20: International Affairs
21: Labor and Employment
22: Law
23: Native Americans
24: Private Legislation
25: Public Lands and Natural Resources
26: Science, Technology, Communications
27: Social Sciences and History
28: Social Welfare
29: Sports and Recreation
30: Taxation
31: Transportation and Public Works
32: Water Resources Development

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Languages

English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

index                                                          11047
id                                                          H.R.4536
policy_areas                                          Social Welfare
cur_summary        Welfare for Needs not Weed Act\nThis bill proh...
cur_text           To prohibit assistance provided under the prog...
title                                 Welfare for Needs not Weed Act
titles_official    To prohibit assistance provided under the prog...
titles_short                          Welfare for Needs not Weed Act
sponsor_name                                          Rep. Rice, Tom
sponsor_party                                                      R
sponsor_state                                                     SC
Name: 0, dtype: object

Data Fields

index: A numeric index
id: The unique bill ID as a string
policy_areas: The key policy area as a string. This is the classification label.
cur_summary: The latest summary of the bill as a string.
cur_text: The latest text of the bill as a string.
title: The core title of the bill, as labeled on Congress.gov, as a string.
titles_official: All official titles of the bill (or nested legislation) as a string.
titles_short: All short titles of the bill (or nested legislation) as a string.
sponsor_name: The name of the primary representative sponsoring the legislation as a string.
sponsor_party: The party of the primary sponsor as a string.
sponsor_state: The home state of the primary sponsor as a string.

Data Splits

The dataset was split into a training and testing split using a stratefied sampling, due to the class imbalance in the dataset.

Using scikit-learn, a quarter of the data (by class) is reserved for testing:

train_ix, test_ix = train_test_split(ixs, test_size=0.25, stratify=df['y'], random_state=1234567)

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

This dataset was created to provide a new dataset at the intersection of NLP and legislation. Using this data for a simple major topic classification seemed like a practical first step.