Data

Welcome to the home for datasets produced and curated by CAPPP.

Legislative Explorer

Tracing the bill making process in an and data-intensive and visual manner. For questions or help with the LegEx data, email Nick Stramp (stramp@uw.edu).

• Code & Codebook (on bitbucket)
• Congressional Actions (zipped .csv file, updated nightly)
• Congressional Bills (zipped .csv file, updated nightly)
• Congressional Members (zipped .csv file, updated nightly)
• Committee Crosswalk (.csv file with several congressional committee identifiers)
• Bill Status and Location table (pdf)

Please cite the above data:

Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington. 2014. “Legislative Explorer Dataset.” https://depts.washington.edu/cappp/wordpress/index.php/data/.

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Congressional Bills Project

• Data available at congressionalbills.org