df_pba_debate: Partial-Birth Abortion Act Senate Debate in Paragraph Form
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The final US Senate debate for the 2003 Act banning 'partial-birth' abortion, scraped from the congressional record and organized by paragraph (or a near approximation).

1	df_pba_debate

A data frame object with variables

speaker: Speaker's family name, capitalized except for DeWine
text: What was spoken
quote: Whether this part of the record is the speaker's own words or a quote, either of the bill itself or a letter from another person or organization
party: Party membership of the speaker. "D" (Democrat) or "R" (Republican). For the 'presiding officer', no party is recorded although they will have one.

This is the kind of data frame you might make a quanteda corpus out of.

Congressional Record: https://www.congress.gov/crec/2003/10/21/modified/CREC-2003-10-21-pt1-PgS12914-2.htm, https://www.congress.gov/crec/2003/10/21/modified/CREC-2003-10-21-pt1-PgS12927-2.htm

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