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Senate cloture motions and votes

Source: R/get_senate_cloture_votes.R
get_senate_cloture_votes.Rd

get_senate_cloture_votes() returns a tibble of the number of cloture motions, cloture votes, and successful cloture votes in the Senate during each Congress since 1917.

Usage

get_senate_cloture_votes()

Value

A tibble with the number of cloture motions, cloture votes, and successful cloture votes in each Congress.

Details

The data is sourced from the official Senate website, specifically https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/clotureCounts.htm.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive() && !is.null(curl::nslookup("www.senate.gov", error = FALSE))
get_senate_cloture_votes()
}