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Bulk Data Access to US Code

November 30th, 2009 by Daniel Schuman · No Comments

The U.S. House’s Office of Law Revision Counsel has collected bulk text data from the United States Code dating back to 1991 and posted it here: http://uscode.house.gov/zip/bulktextdata

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This is the data in the “pls” format (plain text). There is a ZIP file for each year that contains the entire USC….

This data was previously available by downloading the CD-ROM ISO images and using the data files from those CD-ROMS, but that didn’t seem to be a very useful way to post it. [It is now] posted [as] zip files for each year in hope that it will be more accessible.

Off the top of my head, it might be interesting to see how much of the U.S. Code has changed from year to year (perhaps percent change over time as a chart), or to have redline versions of specific titles, or to run capitol words for specific titles. For example, a capitol words guide that links to other related sections of the code. It’s great that they made this available.

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