# Congress series data files

Generated by the pipeline in the author's congress-history project on Nov. 2, 2026. Sources: Voteview (Lewis et al., 2026; no license stated, cited as requested), Gallup's "Congress and the Public" trend table (Gallup copyright; readings reported as facts with attribution), the Government Publishing Office's GovInfo sitemaps (public domain), the Center for Effective Lawmaking (cite CEL), the Federal Judicial Center (public domain), the House and Senate historians (public domain), and the Congressional Record via GovInfo (public domain).

- congress_table.csv: one row per Congress, 115th to 119th.
- gallup_approval.csv: every Gallup reading, 1974 to Oct. 2026, with the Congress whose term holds its first field date.
- govinfo_counts.csv: public laws and introduced bills per Congress from GovInfo's PLAW and BILLS sitemaps.
- rollcall_party.csv, polarization.csv: party-unity votes and DW-NOMINATE party gaps per Congress and chamber.
- key_votes.csv: tallies and party splits read from Voteview for each vote the pieces cite.
- war_powers_votes_119.csv: 119th Congress war-powers roll calls, with whether the text names Iran.
- tone_by_congress.csv, tone_by_chamber.csv: VADER tone of sampled floor speeches; validated against a blind reading at 53 percent agreement, so use for direction only.
- confirmations_by_congress.csv, nomination_rollcalls.csv, judges_confirmed.csv, en_bloc_batches.csv: Senate nomination votes and Article III judges.

The 119th Congress is in session: Voteview votes run through Sept. 30, 2026, judges through Sept. 23, laws through Oct. 30.