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---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: USA Congress speeches
---
curated using

Judd, Nicholas, Dan Drinkard, Jeremy Carbaugh, and Lindsay Young. congressional-record: A parser for the Congressional Record. Chicago, IL: 2017.
https://github.com/unitedstates/congressional-record

Text is preprocessed by removing President names, Vice President names, party names, and some cliche phrases such as "I reserve the balance of my time","I yield the floor" etc.
The data set is balanced based on parties as well.