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Commerce(148 bills)
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Commission of Fine Arts(2 bills)
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Commission on Civil Rights(3 bills)
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Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled(2 bills)
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Commodities markets(21 bills)
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Commodity Credit Corporation(2 bills)
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission(21 bills)
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Competition and antitrust(37 bills)
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Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits(44 bills)
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Compost(0 bills)
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Comprehensive health care(21 bills)
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Computer crimes(0 bills)
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Computer crimes and identity theft(45 bills)
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Constitution and constitutional amendments(83 bills)
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Correctional facilities and imprisonment(88 bills)
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Costa Rica(3 bills)
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Credit and credit markets(40 bills)
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Crete(0 bills)
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Crime and law enforcement(285 bills)
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Crime prevention(76 bills)
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Crimes against animals and natural resources(16 bills)
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Crimes against children(57 bills)
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Crimes against humanity(0 bills)
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Crimes against property(31 bills)
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Crimes against the elderly(0 bills)
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Crimes against women(54 bills)
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Crime victims(82 bills)
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Criminal aliens(0 bills)
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Criminal insane(0 bills)
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Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation(180 bills)
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Criminal justice information and records(120 bills)
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Criminal law(0 bills)
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Criminal procedure and sentencing(133 bills)
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Croatia(1 bills)
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Cuba(67 bills)
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Cubans(0 bills)
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Cultural exchanges and relations(26 bills)
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Culture(0 bills)
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Currency(41 bills)
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Custody of children(0 bills)
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Customs administration(0 bills)
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Customs unions(0 bills)
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Cyprus(2 bills)
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Cystic fibrosis(0 bills)
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Cytology(0 bills)
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Czechoslovakia(0 bills)
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Czech Republic(6 bills)
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