convert en-dashes to hyphens when constructing US Code links to Cornell LII, and don't encoding anything to UTF-8 because lxml.etree will reject pre-encoded bytes that contain control characters
convert en-dashes to hyphens when constructing US Code links to Cornell LII, and don't encoding anything to UTF-8 because lxml.etree will reject pre-encoded bytes that contain control characters

GPHemsley/congressxml