Datasets:

Dustinhax
/

paper-trail-data

license: mit
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - congress
  - legislators
  - politics
  - usa
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

Paper Trail Data

Processed congressional data for the Paper Trail API. Derived from the Dustinhax/tyt dataset.

Files

distinct_legislators.parquet

Deduplicated list of US legislators from 1979 (96th Congress) to present.

Column	Type	Description
bioguide_id	string	Primary key (unique per legislator)
bioname	string	Full name (LAST, First format)
state_abbrev	string	Most recent state represented
party_code	float64	Most recent party (100=Dem, 200=Rep, 328=Ind)
congresses_served	list[int16]	Array of all congress numbers served
first_congress	int16	Earliest congress (for range queries)
last_congress	int16	Latest congress (for range queries)
nominate_dim1	float64	Economic ideology score (-1 to +1)
nominate_dim2	float64	Social issues score (-1 to +1)

Stats:

2,303 legislators
Congress 96-119 (1979-2026)
~53 KB (ZSTD compressed)

Source: Voteview HSall_members, aggregated by bioguide_id

Data Sources

All data derived from:

Voteview (Lewis, Poole, Rosenthal, Boche, Rudkin, Sonnet) - https://voteview.com/
Congress Legislators (@unitedstates) - https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

License

MIT (processing code) / Public domain (source data)