This dataset contains information from all articles in the main chapters of the CQ Almanac. Each CQ Almanac articles typically covers one legislative initiative; when an article contains information about several different public laws or bills, it is divided so that each record in our dataset contains information about one legislative initiative.

Each record is coded according to our policy content scheme. Several other variables concerning each legislative initiative (e.g., bill numbers, Public Law number if applicable, committees involved, primary sponsors, etc.) are also included.

Identification variables link our records to the original CQ source material as well as to our Public Laws dataset.

14,444 observations spanning the years 1948 to 2015.

A note of caution: article length has varied over the span of this dataset.