A sample dataset containing labeled bills from the United State Congress.

A sample dataset containing labeled bills from the United States Congress, compiled by Professor John D. Wilkerson at the University of Washington, Seattle and E. Scott Adler at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Usage

USCongress

Format

A tibble containing six columns.

ID

A unique identifier for the bill.

cong

The session of congress in which the bill first appeared.

billnum

The number of the bill as it appears in the congressional docket.

h_or_sen

A field specifying whether the bill was introduced in the House (HR) or the Senate (S).

major

A manually labeled topic code corresponding to the subject of the bill.

text

A short text description of the bill.

Source

First included in the RTextTools package (now deprecated). Original source is http://www.congressionalbills.org/.