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license: mit
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task_categories:
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- tabular-classification
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language:
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- en
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tags:
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- congress
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- legislators
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- politics
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- usa
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size_categories:
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- 1K<n<10K
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# Paper Trail Data
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Processed congressional data for the Paper Trail API. Derived from the [Dustinhax/tyt](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Dustinhax/tyt) dataset.
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## Files
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### distinct_legislators.parquet
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Deduplicated list of US legislators from 1979 (96th Congress) to present.
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| Column | Type | Description |
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| bioguide_id | string | Primary key (unique per legislator) |
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| bioname | string | Full name (LAST, First format) |
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| state_abbrev | string | Most recent state represented |
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| party_code | float64 | Most recent party (100=Dem, 200=Rep, 328=Ind) |
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| congresses_served | list[int16] | Array of all congress numbers served |
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| first_congress | int16 | Earliest congress (for range queries) |
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| last_congress | int16 | Latest congress (for range queries) |
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| nominate_dim1 | float64 | Economic ideology score (-1 to +1) |
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| nominate_dim2 | float64 | Social issues score (-1 to +1) |
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**Stats:**
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- 2,303 legislators
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- Congress 96-119 (1979-2026)
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- ~53 KB (ZSTD compressed)
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**Source:** Voteview HSall_members, aggregated by bioguide_id
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## Data Sources
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All data derived from:
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- **Voteview** (Lewis, Poole, Rosenthal, Boche, Rudkin, Sonnet) - https://voteview.com/
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- **Congress Legislators** (@unitedstates) - https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators
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## License
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MIT (processing code) / Public domain (source data)
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