README.md

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title: Congress Public Records Slice
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: "5.23.1"
python_version: "3.11"
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
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# Congress Public Records Slice Space

Neutral Records explorer for a public-record slice of congressional money-and-power linkages.

## Runtime Notes

- This Space first checks for a bundled local `dataset_bundle` inside the Space repo, then falls back to the configured Hugging Face dataset repo.
- For local testing, set the `PUBLIC_RELEASE_LOCAL_ROOT` environment variable to the release root folder before launching `app.py`.
- The Space is intentionally neutral and does not assign guilt, wrongdoing, intent, or causality.

## Required Caveats

- This release is a slice of public-record data, not a complete accounting of all potentially relevant data.
- Future releases may update or expand this slice as source recovery, parsing, and evidence linkage improve.
- This release does not assign guilt, wrongdoing, intent, or causality to any person or organization.
- The release shows public-record overlaps, timing, and linkage strength, not proof of illegality or corruption.
- Some rows remain review-tier or include unresolved official source references and should be read with those labels in mind.
- The public package includes verification summaries and SHA-backed artifact indexes, but it does not include the full internal raw corpus, so external verification is bounded by what is published here.