housevotes: United States Congressional Voting Records 1984
Description
This data set includes votes for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16
key votes identified by the CQA. The CQA lists nine different types of votes: voted for, paired for,
and announced for (these three simplified to yea), voted against, paired against, and announced
against (these three simplified to nay), voted present, voted present to avoid conflict of interest,
and did not vote or otherwise make a position known (these three simplified to an unknown disposition).
Newman, D.J. & Hettich, S. & Blake, C.L. & Merz, C.J. (1998). UCI Repository of machine
learning databases [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html]. Irvine, CA: University of
California, Department of Information and Computer Science.