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108hconres530ih | 108 | hconres | 530 | ih | Encouraging The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Greece to continue negotiations to determine a mutually acceptable official name for the FYROM, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres407ih | 108 | hconres | 407 | ih | Saluting the life and courage of the late Commander Lloyd Pete Bucher, United States Navy (retired), who commanded the U.S.S. Pueblo (AGER–2) at the time of its capture by North Korea on January 23, 1968. | [
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108hconres441ih | 108 | hconres | 441 | ih | Recognizing the essential role of nuclear power in the national energy policy of the United States and supporting the increased use of nuclear power and the construction and development of new and improved nuclear power generating plants. | [
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108hconres428ih | 108 | hconres | 428 | ih | Recommending that Congress not provide funds for fiscal year 2005 for the deployment of ground-based, strategic, mid-course, ballistic missile defense system components that have not met operational testing requirements and, instead, provide needed funding for programs designed to keep America’s ports secure from terrorist attacks. | [
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108hconres426ih | 108 | hconres | 426 | ih | Supporting the goals and ideals of Taiwanese-American Heritage Week. | [
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108hconres402ih | 108 | hconres | 402 | ih | Recognizing the involvement in or support for acts of international terrorism by senior officials of the Government of the Republic of the Sudan and calling on Sudan to cease its involvement in acts of international terrorism and to prosecute and punish any Sudanese officials who have supported or have been involved in acts of international terrorism. | [
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108hconres463ih | 108 | hconres | 463 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued to honor law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. | [
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108hconres449ih | 108 | hconres | 449 | ih | Honoring the life and accomplishments of Ray Charles, recognizing his contributions to the Nation, and extending condolences to his family on his death. | [
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108hconres507ih | 108 | hconres | 507 | ih | Encouraging citizens to be mindful of the contribution of horses to the economy, history, and character of the United States and expressing the sense of Congress that a National Day of the Horse should be established. | [
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108hconres474ih | 108 | hconres | 474 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress that the Federal Government should not give any Federal agency the power to postpone the date of Federal elections. | [
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108hconres398ih | 108 | hconres | 398 | ih | Expressing the concern of Congress over Iran’s development of the means to produce nuclear weapons. | [
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(9) further calls upon the European Union to consider what further measures, including sanctions, may be necessary to persuade Iran to fulfill its obligations and commitments to the IAEA; (10) in light of ongoing revelations of the noncompliance of the Government of Iran regarding its obligations under the NPT and pledges to the IAEA, and in light of the consequent and ongoing questions and concerns of the IAEA, the United States, and the international community regarding Iran’s military nuclear activities— (A) urges Japan to ensure that Japanese commercial entities not proceed with the development of Iran’s Azadegan oil field; (B) urges France and Malaysia to ensure that French and Malaysian commercial entities not proceed with their agreement for further cooperation in expanding Iran’s liquid natural gas production field; (C) calls on all countries to intercede with their commercial entities to ensure that these entities refrain from or cease all investment and investment-related activities that support Iran’s energy industry; and (D) calls on the President to enforce the provisions of the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 to discourage foreign commercial entities from investing in Iran’s energy industry; (11) deplores any effort by any country to provide any nuclear power-related assistance whatsoever to Iran, and calls upon Russia to suspend nuclear cooperation with Iran and not conclude a nuclear fuel supply agreement for the Bushehr reactor, until the conditions of paragraph (8) are satisfied; (12) calls upon the governments of the countries whose nationals and corporations are implicated in assisting Iranian nuclear activities, especially Pakistan, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and Germany, to fully investigate such assistance, to grant the IAEA full access to individuals, sites, and all information related to the investigations, and to immediately review and rectify their export control laws, regulations, and practices in order to prevent further assistance to countries seeking to develop nuclear programs that could support the development of nuclear weapons; (13) urges the IAEA Board of Governors, at its earliest opportunity, to report to the United Nations Security Council that Iran is in noncompliance with its agreements with the IAEA; (14) urges the President of the United States to provide whatever financial, material, or intelligence resources are necessary to the IAEA to enable it to fully investigate Iran’s nuclear activities; (15) urges the United Nations Security Council, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Zangger Committee, and other relevant international entities to declare that non-nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), who commit violations of their safeguards agreements regarding uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing, or engage in activities which could support a military nuclear program, thereby forfeit their right under the NPT to engage in nuclear fuel-cycle activities; (16) further urges the United Nations Security Council to consider measures necessary to support the inspection efforts by the IAEA and to prevent Iran from further engaging in clandestine nuclear activities; 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(9) further calls upon the European Union to consider what further measures, including sanctions, may be necessary to persuade Iran to fulfill its obligations and commitments to the IAEA; (10) in light of ongoing revelations of the noncompliance of the Government of Iran regarding its obligations under the NPT and pledges to the IAEA, and in light of the consequent and ongoing questions and concerns of the IAEA, the United States, and the international community regarding Iran’s military nuclear activities— (A) urges Japan to ensure that Japanese commercial entities not proceed with the development of Iran’s Azadegan oil field; (B) urges France and Malaysia to ensure that French and Malaysian commercial entities not proceed with their agreement for further cooperation in expanding Iran’s liquid natural gas production field; (C) calls on all countries to intercede with their commercial entities to ensure that these entities refrain from or cease all investment and investment-related activities that support Iran’s energy industry; 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(13) urges the IAEA Board of Governors, at its earliest opportunity, to report to the United Nations Security Council that Iran is in noncompliance with its agreements with the IAEA; (14) urges the President of the United States to provide whatever financial, material, or intelligence resources are necessary to the IAEA to enable it to fully investigate Iran’s nuclear activities; (15) urges the United Nations Security Council, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Zangger Committee, and other relevant international entities to declare that non-nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), who commit violations of their safeguards agreements regarding uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing, or engage in activities which could support a military nuclear program, thereby forfeit their right under the NPT to engage in nuclear fuel-cycle activities; (16) further urges the United Nations Security Council to consider measures necessary to support the inspection efforts by the IAEA and to prevent Iran from further engaging in clandestine nuclear activities; 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108hconres385ih | 108 | hconres | 385 | ih | Calling on the President to negotiate a bilateral security agreement with the Iraqi Governing Council before June 30, 2004. | [
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108hconres420ih | 108 | hconres | 420 | ih | Applauding the men and women who keep America moving and recognizing National Transportation Week. | [
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108hconres364ih | 108 | hconres | 364 | ih | To recognize more than 5 decades of strategic partnership between the United States and the people of the Marshall Islands in the pursuit of international peace and security, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres406ih | 108 | hconres | 406 | ih | Remembering the victims of the genocide that occurred in 1994 in Rwanda and pledging to work to ensure that such an atrocity does not take place again. | [
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108hconres447ih | 108 | hconres | 447 | ih | Congratulating the Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team on winning the NCAA Division I National Championship. | [
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108hconres475ih | 108 | hconres | 475 | ih | Encouraging the International Olympic Committee to select New York City as the site of the 2012 Olympic Games. | [
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108hconres498ih | 108 | hconres | 498 | ih | Urging the President to take immediate steps to establish a plan to adopt the recommendations of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its 2004 Report to the Congress in order to correct the current imbalance in the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. | [
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108hconres383ih | 108 | hconres | 383 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress concerning the well-being of members of the Armed Forces and calling on the Department of Defense to do its utmost to see that deployed military personnel have the best force protection equipment the Nation can make available, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres391ih | 108 | hconres | 391 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress concerning the well-being of members of the Armed Forces and calling on the Department of Defense to do its utmost to see that deployed military personnel have the best force protection equipment the Nation can make available, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres395ih | 108 | hconres | 395 | ih | Honoring Donald J. Smith for his commitment to providing housing and economic assistance opportunities to Los Angeles-area low-income families. | [
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108hconres390ih | 108 | hconres | 390 | ih | Condemning the adoption of United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES–10/14 (December 8, 2003) which requests the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render an advisory opinion concerning the international legal consequences arising from Israel’s construction of a security fence in parts of the West Bank, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres525ih | 108 | hconres | 525 | ih | Commending those individuals that have donated prepaid telephone cards to members of the United States Armed Forces participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. | [
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108hconres442ih | 108 | hconres | 442 | ih | Recognizing the 75th anniversary of Amtrak’s Empire Builder rail line. | [
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108hconres351ih | 108 | hconres | 351 | ih | Congratulating the University of Delaware men’s football team for winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association I–AA national championship. | [
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108hconres453ih | 108 | hconres | 453 | ih | Celebrating the establishment of democracy in Iraq and urging the people of the United States and of other countries in all communities and congregations to ring bells on June 30, 2004, to commemorate the restoration of freedom to the people of Iraq. | [
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108hconres375ih | 108 | hconres | 375 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative stamp should be issued in honor of the centennial anniversary of Rotary International and its work to eradicate polio. | [
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108hconres486ih | 108 | hconres | 486 | ih | Recognizing and honoring military unit family support volunteers for their dedicated service to the United States, the Armed Forces, and members of the Armed Forces and their families. | [
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108hconres353ih | 108 | hconres | 353 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the visit to the United States of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan beginning January 26, 2004. | [
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108hconres505ih | 108 | hconres | 505 | ih | Recognizing, commending, and supporting the efforts of the Celebrate Freedom Foundation. | [
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108hconres378ih | 108 | hconres | 378 | ih | Calling on the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to immediately and unconditionally release Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres382ih | 108 | hconres | 382 | ih | Affirming that the intent of Congress in passing the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 was to allow hunting and fishing on public lands within the National Wildlife Refuge System and declaring that the purpose of reserving certain lands as public lands is to make them available to the public for reasonable uses. | [
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108hconres450ih | 108 | hconres | 450 | ih | Recognizing the 40th anniversary of the day civil rights organizers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner gave their lives in the struggle to guarantee the right to vote for every citizen of the United States and encouraging all Americans to observe the anniversary of the deaths of the 3 men by committing themselves to ensuring equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal justice for all people. | [
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108hconres451ih | 108 | hconres | 451 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the establishment of a scholarship fund to make tuition grants available to eligible former students who were denied an education in Prince Edward County, Virginia, when the public schools closed rather than comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. | [
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108hconres472ih | 108 | hconres | 472 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress that the apprehension, detention, and interrogation of terrorists are fundamental elements in the successful prosecution of the Global War on Terrorism and the protection of the lives of United States citizens at home and abroad. | [
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108hconres508ih | 108 | hconres | 508 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued by the United States Postal Service honoring Robert Fighting Bob La Follette, Sr., and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued. | [
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108hconres362ih | 108 | hconres | 362 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the importance of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood donation and supporting National Donor Day. | [
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108hconres478ih | 108 | hconres | 478 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress that the Supreme Court of the United States should act expeditiously to resolve the confusion and inconsistency in the Federal criminal justice system caused by its decision in Blakely v. Washington, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres456ih | 108 | hconres | 456 | ih | Recognizing that prevention of suicide is a compelling national priority. | [
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108hconres469ih | 108 | hconres | 469 | ih | Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and expressing the concern of the United States regarding the continuing, decade-long delay in the resolution of this case. | [
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108hconres511ih | 108 | hconres | 511 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to Inez Sitter. | [
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108hconres403ih | 108 | hconres | 403 | ih | Condemning the Government of the Republic of the Sudan for its attacks against innocent civilians in the impoverished Darfur region of western Sudan. | [
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108hconres384ih | 108 | hconres | 384 | ih | Calling for the removal of all restrictions from the public, the press, and military families in mourning that would prohibit their presence at the arrival at military installations in the United States or overseas of the remains of the Nation’s fallen heroes, the members of the Armed Forces who have died in Iraq or Afghanistan, with the assurance that family requests for privacy will be respected. | [
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108hconres490ih | 108 | hconres | 490 | ih | Wishing William Jefferson Clinton a speedy recovery and acknowledging the importance of further research, funding, programs, and public education regarding heart disease. | [
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108hconres431ih | 108 | hconres | 431 | ih | Urging the Government of Vietnam to provide to the United States all information in the possession of Vietnam regarding Americans unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres409ih | 108 | hconres | 409 | ih | Recognizing with humble gratitude the more than 16,000,000 veterans who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II and the Americans who supported the war effort on the home front and celebrating the completion of the National World War II Memorial on the National Mall in the District of Columbia. | [
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108hconres452ih | 108 | hconres | 452 | ih | Recognizing and honoring America’s labor movement, supporting the designation of a National Labor History Month, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres376ih | 108 | hconres | 376 | ih | Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby. | [
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108hconres355ih | 108 | hconres | 355 | ih | Congratulating the University of Delaware men’s football team for winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association I–AA national championship. | [
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108hconres367ih | 108 | hconres | 367 | ih | Saluting the life and courage of the late Commander Lloyd Pete Bucher, United States Navy (retired), who commanded the U.S.S. Pueblo (AGER–2) at the time of its capture by North Korea on January 23, 1968. | [
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108hconres496ih | 108 | hconres | 496 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress with regard to providing humanitarian assistance to countries of the Caribbean devastated by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. | [
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108hconres429ih | 108 | hconres | 429 | ih | Recognizing the sacrifices of individuals working in Iraq under United States Government contracts, expressing sympathy to those individuals injured or taken captive in Iraq, and expressing condolences to the families of those individuals killed in Iraq. | [
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108hconres477ih | 108 | hconres | 477 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued in honor of the USS New Jersey and all those who served aboard her. | [
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108hconres366ih | 108 | hconres | 366 | ih | Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding negotiating, in the United States-Thailand Free Trade Agreement, access to the United States automobile industry. | [
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108hconres421ih | 108 | hconres | 421 | ih | Recognizing the Liberty Memorial Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as America’s National World War I Museum, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres397ih | 108 | hconres | 397 | ih | Providing for the acceptance of a statue of Sarah Winnemucca, presented by the people of Nevada, for placement in National Statuary Hall, and for other purposes. | [
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108hconres526ih | 108 | hconres | 526 | ih | Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should grant a posthumous pardon to John Arthur Jack Johnson for the 1913 racially motivated conviction of Johnson, which diminished his athletic, cultural, and historic significance, and tarnished his reputation. | [
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108hconres445ih | 108 | hconres | 445 | ih | Recognizing the invaluable contribution of Native American Veterans and honoring their service to the Nation. | [
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Dataset Summary
Dataset for US Congressional bills with policy area and legislative subjects information (bill_labels_us). Contains data for bills from the 108th to the 118th Congress, approximately 119,000 documents.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Languages
English
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
default
Data Fields
- id: id of the bill in format(congress number + bill type + bill number + bill version).
- congress: number of the congress.
- bill_type: type of the bill.
- bill_number: number of the bill.
- bill_version: version of the bill.
- title: official title of the bill.
- sections: list of bill sections with section_id, text and header.
- sections_length: number with lenght of the sections list.
- text: bill text.
- text_length: number of characters in the text.
- policy_area: the policy area that bill relates to.
- legislative_subjects: list of the legislative subjects that bill relates to.
Data Splits
train
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Bills (proposed laws) are specialized, structured documents with great public significance. Often, the language of a bill may not directly explain the potential impact of the legislation. This dataset collects the text of bills and metadata that can identify and categorize bills. As a result, this dataset collects bill text; it also provides text as a list of sections with the text and header. The policy area and legislative subjects are categories assigned to each bill by specialist researchers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. With these labels, it should be possible to train models to autoclassify bills.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The data consists of the US congressional bills that were collected from the govinfo.gov service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license.
Who are the source language producers?
Annotations
Annotation process
[More Information Needed]
Who are the annotators?
The policy area, legislative subjects and other annotations were produced by analysts at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
Personal and Sensitive Information
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Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
These are legislative proposals in the US Congress.
Discussion of Biases
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Other Known Limitations
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
Bill and metadata information are public and are unlicensed, as it is data produced by government entities. The collection and enhancement work that we provide for this dataset, to the degree it may be covered by copyright, is released under CC0.
Citation Information
[More Information Needed]
Contributions
Thanks to @aih @BorodaUA, @alexbojko for adding this dataset.
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