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Fabio a8594d786c Authority axis v1: mint the executive branch + link 27,804 § → office edges
The Code empowers the executive branch, but the mirror only had legislative
Bodies — every authority reference pointed at nothing. Fixed by minting the
executive branch from the Code's OWN enumerations: 15 Cabinet departments
(5 U.S.C. § 101) + 21 Executive-Schedule Level I offices (§ 5312), 42 Body
nodes under us/executive/.

Then the axis: scripts/extract_authority.py matches named office/department
references across all 59,740 sections (guarding against Deputy/Assistant/Under
subordinates) and emits data/section_authority_edges.jsonl — 27,804 edges from
17,031 sections (28.7% of the Code) to the offices they empower. build.py
renders reciprocal 'empowered by' links on each office node; the section files
are never touched. Now: click the Attorney General, see all 2,386 sections that
vest authority in it.

Named references only in v1 (cabinet-level). Deterministic; body.schema
classification enum extended (executive-department/-agency/-office); make check
green at 105,746 records.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 11:37:12 -04:00

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type, title, classification, chamber, code, head, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title classification chamber code head sources confidence tags timestamp
Body Department of Labor executive-department executive EXEC-LABOR us/executive/labor/secretary
field source
definition 5 U.S.C. § 101 (Executive departments)
official
body
executive
executive-department
2026-07-03

Department of Labor

Executive department, established by 5 U.S.C. § 101. Headed by the Secretary of Labor.

Referenced by the U.S. Code

306 sections of the U.S. Code reference this department. A sample: