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_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.
See Also
get_voteview_cast_codes()
for a dictionary of
the cast codes in this data.
Examples
get_voteview_member_votes()
# 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)