Data Utilities for Congressional Research
Calculate the Congress number of a given year
Calculate the current Congress number
filibustr: Data Utilities for Congressional Research
Get replication data from Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman (2023)
Get Legislative Effectiveness Scores data
Senate cloture motions and votes
Start and end dates of Senate sessions
Key to Voteview cast codes in individual member votes
Get data on the votes of individual members of Congress
Get data on members of Congress from Voteview
Get data on congressional parties from Voteview
Get data on congressional roll call votes from Voteview
Scrape an online HTML table
Get the starting year of a Congress
Provides easy-to-understand and consistent interfaces for accessing data on the U.S. Congress. The functions in 'filibustr' streamline the process for importing data on Congress into R, removing the need to download and work from CSV files and the like. Data sources include 'Voteview' (<https://voteview.com/>), the U.S. Senate website (<https://www.senate.gov/>), and more.
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