| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| - tabular-classification |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - politics |
| - civic-data |
| - legislation |
| - voting-records |
| - campaign-finance |
| - government-transparency |
| pretty_name: TIP Civic Data |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| --- |
| |
| # TIP Civic Data — U.S. Legislative Transparency Dataset |
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| Nonpartisan civic accountability data from [Truth In Polling](https://truthinpolling.com) (501(c)(3) nonprofit). |
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| Includes federal and state legislation, official voting records, citizen approval ratings, campaign finance industry funding, multi-factor vote predictions, and donor-to-vote-to-contract money trail analysis. |
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| ## Datasets |
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| | File | Description | Rows | |
| |------|-------------|------| |
| | federal_bills | Federal legislation (119th Congress) | 6,242 | |
| | state_bills | State legislation across 49 states | 8,422 | |
| | federal_officials | Current members of Congress | 540 | |
| | state_officials | State legislators across 49 states | 7,392 | |
| | federal_floor_votes | Congressional roll call votes | 155,646 | |
| | state_floor_votes | State legislative roll call votes | 28,495 | |
| | citizen_approval | Aggregated citizen approval ratings (no PII) | 32 | |
| | bill_vote_distributions | Aggregated citizen bill votes (no PII) | 62 | |
| | federal_industry_funding | PAC industry funding per official (FEC) | 16,361 | |
| | pfp_predictions | Multi-factor vote predictions per official per bill | 20,387 | |
| | money_trail | Donor→vote→contract industry triangles | 109,438 | |
| | industry_taxonomy | CRP/OpenSecrets industry classification codes | 92 | |
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| ## Update Frequency |
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| Weekly (Sundays). Last refreshed: **2026-03-29**. |
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| ## License |
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| [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — free to use with attribution. |
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| ## Citation |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{tip_civic_data_2026, |
| title={TIP Civic Data: U.S. Legislative Transparency Dataset}, |
| author={Truth In Polling, Inc.}, |
| year={2026}, |
| url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/truthinpolling/tip-civic-data}, |
| note={Weekly updated civic accountability data} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Methodology |
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| See [How It Works](https://truthinpolling.com/how-it-works) for scoring methodology. |
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| ## API Access |
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| For real-time queries, use the [TIP Public API](https://truthinpolling.com/developers) — 18 REST endpoints, 17 MCP tools. |
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| ## Data Notes |
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| - All citizen-facing data (approval ratings, bill votes) is **aggregated** — no individual voter data is included. |
| - Campaign finance data is from FEC bulk filings (1.6M federal contributions). |
| - Money trail triangles correlate donations, votes, and contracts — **correlation does not imply causation**. |
| - The United States is a Constitutional Republic. |
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