get_voteview_rollcall_votes {filibustr} | R Documentation |
Get data on congressional roll call votes from Voteview
Description
get_voteview_rollcall_votes()
returns a tibble with information on recorded
(roll call) votes in the House and Senate.
Usage
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(
chamber = "all",
congress = NULL,
local_path = NULL
)
Arguments
chamber |
Which chamber to get data for. Options are:
These options are case-insensitive. If you explicitly pass a different value, it will default to "all" with a warning. |
congress |
(Optional) A whole number (to get data for a single Congress), or a numeric vector (to get data for a set of congresses). If not provided, will retrieve data for all Congresses by default.
If specified, Congress numbers cannot be greater than the |
local_path |
(Optional) A file path for reading from a local file. If no
|
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 (2025). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/
Value
A tibble.
Examples
get_voteview_rollcall_votes()
# Get data for only one chamber
# NOTE: the President is included in all data
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(chamber = "house")
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(chamber = "senate")
# Get data for a specific Congress
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = 100)
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = current_congress())
# Get data for a set of Congresses
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = 1:10)