get_house_nominate: Get DW-nominate Scores for members of the U.S. House
In politicaldata: Tools for Acquiring and Analyzing Political Data

Returns a dataset of nominate scores for House members of the the specified congress, available otherwise at VoteView.com.

1	get_house_nominate(congress = "ALL")

congress

Number for the congress you're interested in. Defaults to "ALL" to get the most recent scores for every congress.

a data frame containing the relevant legislator names and DW-nominate scores, as well as otherinformation made available by VoteView

https://voteview.com/data

 # get the scores for the 116th (2019-2021) congress
 house <- get_house_nominate(congress=116)

 # returned as a data frame
 house

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