The foundational repository that contained the source code and data processing infrastructure for analyzing US federal legislation, now integrated into the main usbills.ai platform.

Project Evolution

This repository served as the initial development ground for what became usbills.ai, containing:

Data collection scripts for federal bills
Statistical analysis pipelines
Web interface components
XSLT transformations for bill processing

Technical Components

Frontend Infrastructure

HTML (46.2%): Web interface structure
SCSS (22.9%): Styled components
CSS (9.9%): Additional styling

Data Processing

XSLT (17.9%): XML transformation for government data
Python (2.0%): Analysis scripts
Jinja (1.1%): Template rendering

Migration Notice

As of January 2025, this project has been consolidated into the main usbills.ai repository. The migration brought:

Unified codebase management
Streamlined deployment
Enhanced feature integration
Improved maintenance

Historical Significance

This repository represents the early stages of ALEA Institute’s efforts to:

Make federal legislation accessible
Develop NLP pipelines for legal text
Create public-facing civic technology
Establish data infrastructure for bill analysis

Legacy Components

Key innovations from this project that live on in usbills.ai:

Bill parsing algorithms
Statistical metrics calculation
Data transformation pipelines
Frontend design patterns

For current development and features, please refer to the main usbills.ai project.