What is related,
and how.
Congress, the Federal Election Commission and other federal offices each publish their own records: bills and votes, hearings, lobbying filings, campaign finance reports, financial disclosures and budget analyses. Undercurrent collects them and ties each record to the bill, member or committee it names, so records about the same thing are linked across publishers.
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How the records
are joined.
sources:
legislative: [ bills, votes, members, committees ]
oversight: [ hearings, committee reports, nominations, calendars ]
influence: [ lobbying, campaign finance, disclosures, House spending ]
analysis: [ cost estimates, research, audits, reports to Congress ]
matched: bills, members, committees
linked: across publishers, by shared identifiers
Where the records
come from.
Every record comes from the U.S. government office that publishes it. Open a group to see what it covers and where it is published.
Legislative Bills, votes, members and committees
Bill text and status, amendments and roll call votes in both chambers, with the members and committees of each Congress.
Oversight Hearings, committee reports, nominations and calendars
Committee hearings and reports, presidential nominations and the House and Senate calendars.
Influence Lobbying, campaign finance, disclosures and House spending
Lobbying reports and the bills they name, campaign finances reported to the Federal Election Commission, members' financial disclosures and House office spending.
Analysis Cost estimates, research, audits and reports to Congress
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates, Congressional Research Service reports, GAO audits and the reports agencies must send to Congress.
Context you can
trace back.
Records are joined on the identifiers their publishers assign, such as bill numbers and the ID Congress gives each member, never on a guess at a name. Each connection shows what it rests on, so you can follow it back to the original record.
- 1 The connection Two records that carry the same identifier.
- 2 What it rests on The identifier itself, and which publishers' records it joins.
- 3 The original record A link to the official publication, as it was issued.