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Description
When running usc-run bills for the 119th congress (this most recent one in 2025), I noticed that bill summary text was always empty. When checking the xml, I found the summaries elements however it appears as though the summary text element is now wrapped under a cdata element.
Sadly even though this change exists, the schema version remained unchanged. I made a PR for this specific issue.
If you want to take a look at the xml data I'm talking about, click on the examples I gave and look for the summaries element under bill.
Here are examples of the cdata element in congress 118 and 119:
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/hr/BILLSTATUS-119hr1.xml
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/118/hr/BILLSTATUS-118hr1.xml
Here's what the old ones looked like (without cdata):
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr/BILLSTATUS-117hr1.xml
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr/BILLSTATUS-116hr1.xml
I believe this may be an issue for other text elements as well, so this might be worth looking into.