Toolkit for analyzing U.S. legislative bills.

Tested with H.Con.Res.14: Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.

• 119th Congress (2025-2026)

Built with a recent version of Zig

• zig-version.txt
• Update to latest at https://ziglang.org/download/

Use high-performance Zig to enhance Python projects, e.g., py-bill-utils.

Each tool is available in two versions:

• _file/: Reads from file using std.fs.File.
• _stream/: Reads from stdin using std.io streams.

All tools are implemented using Zig's standard library. This project provides CLI tools in zig-out os-specific folders.

• Fast & lightweight: Built with Zig for speed and clarity
• No runtime dependencies: Fully static executables
• Self-documenting: Every tool has --help

Run pipeline on each data/billname folder:

./zig-bill-utils-run.ps1

Choose commands to build for each target as needed (Zig 0.15+ required) or run them all with PowerShell Core.

zig build install -Dtarget=aarch64-macos -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe
zig build install -Dtarget=x86_64-linux -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe
zig build install -Dtarget=x86_64-macos -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe
zig build install -Dtarget=x86_64-windows -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe 


./build_all.ps1

Binaries are written to zig-out/ in operating-system specific folders.

• data/billname/
  • bill.txt
  • amendments.csv
  • keywords.txt
• src/ — Zig files for the CLI tools and shared utils and logger
• output/billname/
  • amendments/
  • sections/
  • clean.txt
  • headings.txt
  • keyword_hits_amendments.txt
  • keyword_hits.txt
  • money_lines.csv

• Congress.gov
  • 2025-hconres0014
• Zig
  • Language Reference
  • Standard Library
  • Build System

MIT License © 2025 Denise Case