| # Congress Public Records Slice Methodology | |
| ## What This Release Is | |
| This bundle is a neutral, review-oriented slice of public-record linkages built from a fixed House-wide run of the dataset. | |
| It is designed for exploration and bounded verification, not for assigning guilt, wrongdoing, intent, or causality. | |
| ## What This Shows | |
| Public records can be normalized into a reproducible graph of House trades, committees, bills, votes, campaign finance, lobbying visibility, and community project funding. | |
| ## What This Does Not Prove | |
| This sample does not prove illegality, corruption, intent, or causality. It only shows deterministic overlap, timing, and linkage strength from official public records. | |
| ## Source Groups | |
| - House Clerk financial disclosures and PTRs | |
| - House Clerk member directory and committee list | |
| - GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data | |
| - House Clerk roll-call vote XML | |
| - FEC public bulk downloads | |
| - LDA public search pages | |
| - House member community project funding disclosure pages | |
| ## Public Release Notes | |
| - 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. |