get_voteview_member_votes {filibustr} | R Documentation |
Get data on the votes of individual members of Congress
Description
get_voteview_member_votes()
returns a tibble that lists how each member
of Congress voted in recorded (roll call) votes in the House and Senate.
Members are identified by their ICPSR ID number, which you can use to
join with additional member data from get_voteview_members()
.
Usage
get_voteview_member_votes(
chamber = "all",
congress = NULL,
local = TRUE,
local_dir = "."
)
Arguments
chamber |
Which chamber to get data for. Options are:
|
congress |
A whole number (to get data for a single Congress), or
a numeric vector (to get data for a set of congresses).
Optional; will retrieve data for all Congresses by default.
If specified, Congress numbers cannot be greater than the |
local |
|
local_dir |
|
Details
See the Voteview website for more information on their data.
Please cite this dataset as:
Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2023). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/
Value
A tibble()
.
Examples
get_voteview_member_votes()
# Force to get data from Voteview website
get_voteview_member_votes(local = FALSE)
# Get data for only one chamber
get_voteview_member_votes(chamber = "house")
get_voteview_member_votes(chamber = "senate")
# Get data for a specific Congress
get_voteview_member_votes(congress = 110)
get_voteview_member_votes(congress = current_congress())
# Get data for a set of Congresses
get_voteview_member_votes(congress = 1:3)