Package index • filibustr

Voteview

Get data from Voteview.

get_voteview_members(): Get data on members of Congress from Voteview

get_voteview_parties(): Get data on congressional parties from Voteview

get_voteview_rollcall_votes(): Get data on congressional roll call votes from Voteview

get_voteview_member_votes(): Get data on the votes of individual members of Congress

get_voteview_cast_codes(): Key to Voteview cast codes in individual member votes

Senate.gov

Get data from Senate.gov.

get_senate_cloture_votes(): Senate cloture motions and votes

get_senate_sessions(): Start and end dates of Senate sessions

Other research sources

Get data from Legislative Effectiveness Scores and Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman (2023).

get_les(): Get Legislative Effectiveness Scores data

get_hvw_data(): Get replication data from Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman (2023)

Congresses and years

Convert between Congress numbers and years.

congress_in_year(): Calculate the Congress number of a given year

year_of_congress(): Get the starting year of a Congress

current_congress(): Calculate the current Congress number

Utilities

Not specific to political science research, but useful anyways!

read_html_table(): Scrape an online HTML table