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emissions?|global warming|decarbonization|carbon dioxide|climate adaptation|clean energy)\\b"}, {"id": "education", "label": "Education", "policy_areas": ["education"], "title_rules": [{"label": "education", "pattern": "education"}, {"label": "educator or educators", "pattern": "educators?"}, {"label": "elementary school or schools", "pattern": "elementary schools?"}, {"label": "secondary school or schools", "pattern": "secondary schools?"}, {"label": "school district or districts", "pattern": "school districts?"}, {"label": "student loan or loans", "pattern": "student loans?"}, {"label": "student aid", "pattern": "student aid"}, {"label": "student athlete or athletes", "pattern": "student athletes?"}, {"label": "Pell grant or grants", "pattern": "pell grants?"}, {"label": "early childhood learning", "pattern": "early childhood learning"}, {"label": "higher education", "pattern": "higher education"}], "title_pattern": "\\b(?:education|educators?|elementary schools?|secondary 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If it does not identify an issue, a bill record can supply the match only when its Congress and normalized measure number agree with the vote.", "The vote title must match the bill's full title, ignoring case. A bill-number-only title does not meet that test.", "If the vote title is blank or only its measure number, a title from the same chamber's verified passage can be used only for that exact roll and vote date. A clearly different title is not replaced.", "For a chamber passage title, the bill's policy area is used only when that title matches the bill's full title. Otherwise only the passage-title words are checked.", "The match-source link may therefore differ from the original vote link. Both are shown so the record and its issue classification can be checked separately."], "scoring_context": "Participation = 100 × (Yea, Nay or Present) ÷ eligible imported roll calls, rounded to the nearest whole point. Explicit Not Voting or Absent counts in the denominator. Each distinct roll call counts once. We include identified passage, concurrence and substantive resolution decisions and exclude procedural votes, standalone amendments, conflicting records and unknown positions. No eligible roll calls means no rating. We match official policy areas or specific terms in source titles. A bill can concern multiple issues. Sponsors, projects, donations and lobbying filings add context and contribute no points. The score measures recorded participation in a partial collection. Read the vote question and position to judge agreement."}}