us-congress-code

The codified US Code. One commit per OLRC release point, tagged, with per-law attribution from Table III.

Generated by us-congress-pipeline. This repository holds data only: nothing in it is edited by hand, and all of it can be rebuilt from the upstream sources at any time.

Is this still maintained? STATUS.md in the pipeline carries the date the daily job last ran. If that date has stopped moving, so has this.

What is here

• 383 release points, each a commit and a tag
• the full US Code as Markdown, one file per section
• a GAPS.md recording release points that could not be built

Built from uscode.house.gov release points (USLM 1.0 XML).

Using it

git clone git@github.com:junxit/us-congress-code.git
cd us-congress-code

# the Code as of a given release point
git checkout pl-118-22

# one file per section
cat title-18/chapter-93/sec-1924.md

# what a release point changed
git show --stat pl-118-22

# release points omitted, and why
git show main:GAPS.md

Sections live at title-NN/chapter-NN/sec-NNN.md. Appendix titles keep their letter: title-05a, title-50a.

What to watch out for

This is a derived copy, not an official source of United States law. It is generated automatically and published without review. For authoritative text, use uscode.house.gov or govinfo.gov.

Commit dates are publication dates, not enactment dates. A release point closes over several public laws at once, so a commit is not the effect of a single law.

Attribution trailers record present-day classification. They answer where does this law live now, not what did this commit change. PL 113-40 (2013) is listed under Title 54, which did not exist until December 2014. For what changed, read the diff.

The other repositories

This is one of a set. The pipeline that generates them tracks what exists and what is still queued.

Repository	Phase	Holds	State
us-congress-pipeline	0	The ETL itself. Generates every repository below.	the pipeline
us-congress-code ← you are here	1	The codified US Code. One commit per OLRC release point, tagged, with per-law attribution from Table III.	built
us-congress-bills-{congress}	2	One branch per measure; one commit per bill text version.	12 of these built
us-congress-statutes	5	Statutes at Large — session laws as enacted, volumes 1–137.	built
us-congress-record-{congress}	6	Congressional Record floor proceedings as text, 1994 to present, sharded by Congress and linked to bills by metadata.	10 of these built

us-congress-bills-{congress} — 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119

us-congress-record-{congress} — 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 115

Licence

The federal text here is a work of the United States Government and is not subject to copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 105 — it is public domain, and no rights are asserted over it.

The layer this project authored around it — the Markdown conversion, the structure of the history, the commit messages and the prose in files like this one — is © 2026 Jade Naaman, all rights reserved. See LICENSE.