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The Library of Congress changed their subjects starting with the 111th Congress. So it's one set of terms from 111th forward, and a different set 110th and before. I'm not sure if they back-updated old bills to the new terms. If not, I'm not sure how much exact-match overlap there is between the terms, except the one you pointed out.

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I don't think visitors much care that the LoC changed their category system. And there's no (obvious) way to tell which subjects belong to which system anyway. I would venture to guess that there's more overlap than just the one, since I tried more than I mentioned here.

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I was just explaining why it is like that.

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Oh, OK. But still: There's no obvious indication that there is even multiple systems in the first place.

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I'm not disagreeing.

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