filibustr (version 0.3.0)

get_voteview_rollcall_votes: Get data on congressional roll call votes from Voteview

Description

get_voteview_rollcall_votes() returns a tibble with information on recorded (roll call) votes in the House and Senate.

Usage

get_voteview_rollcall_votes(
  chamber = "all",
  congress = NULL,
  local_path = NULL
)

Value

A tibble.

Arguments

chamber

Which chamber to get data for. Options are:

• "all", "congress", "hs": Both House and Senate data (the default).

• "house", "h", "hr": House data only.

• "senate", "s", "sen": Senate data only.

These options are case-insensitive. If you explicitly pass a different value, it will default to "all" with a warning.

congress

(Optional) A whole number (to get data for a single Congress), or a numeric vector (to get data for a set of congresses).

If not provided, will retrieve data for all Congresses by default. If specified, Congress numbers cannot be greater than the current_congress() (i.e., you cannot try to get future data).

local_path

(Optional) A file path for reading from a local file. If no local_path is specified, will read data from the Voteview website.

Details

See the Voteview website for more information on their data.

Please cite this dataset as:

Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2025). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
get_voteview_rollcall_votes()

# Get data for only one chamber
# NOTE: the President is included in all data
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(chamber = "house")
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(chamber = "senate")
}
# Get data for a specific Congress
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = 100)
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = current_congress())

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# Get data for a set of Congresses
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = 1:10)
}