h116: 116th U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Votes

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116th U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Votes

Description

This dataset contains roll call voting records from the 116th U.S. House of Representatives. The data was obtained using the 'readKH()' function from Voteview, which reads roll call vote data from the Voteview database.

Usage

data(h116)

Format

A list with 8 elements:

votes

A '452 × 952' matrix of roll call votes, where each row represents a legislator and each column represents a vote.

codes

A list containing vote codes:

yea

Codes representing 'Yes' votes.

nay

Codes representing 'No' votes.

notInLegis

Codes for members not in the legislature.

missing

Codes for missing votes.

n

Integer, number of legislators (452).

m

Integer, number of votes (952).

legis.data

A data frame ('452 × 6') containing legislator information:

state

State abbreviation of each legislator.

icpsrState

ICPSR state code.

cd

Congressional district.

icpsrLegis

ICPSR legislator ID.

party

Party affiliation ('"D"', '"R"', '"I"'.).

partyCode

Numerical party code ('200' for Democrats, '100' for Republicans, '328' for Independents.).

vote.data

Currently NULL (reserved for additional vote metadata).

desc

Description: '"116th U.S. House of Representatives"'.

source

URL for the original data source.

Source

Jeffrey B. Lewis, Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet. Voteview: Congressional roll-call votes database. https://voteview.com/, 2024. Accessed: 2024-07-15.

Examples

data(h116)
str(h116)

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