df_pba_debate_by_speaker: Partial-Birth Abortion Act Senate Debate in Speaker...

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

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).

Usage

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Format

A data frame object with variables

speaker

Speaker's family name, capitalized except for DeWine

contributions

All this speaker said in the course of debate

party

Party membership of the speaker. "D" (Democrat) or "R" (Republican).

Details

This is the kind of data frame you might make a quanteda corpus out of. It was constructed by filtering and aggregating df_pba_debate. Contributions from the sequence of 'presiding officers' has been removed.

Source

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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