rollcall_house

4,985,452 responses from 1,088 respondents to 12,000 items.

About this table

DescriptionRecorded roll-call votes of the U.S. House of Representatives, 110th-118th Congresses (2007-2024), one panel across Congresses, built from the chamber's own XML records: 1 = Yea/Aye, 0 = Nay/No, abstentions dropped. Classic ideal-point / unfolding data. 4,985,452 votes cast by 1088 members on 12000 roll calls; covariates party and state, plus the Unix time of each vote.
ReferenceOffice of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Roll call votes (electronic voting system XML), https://clerk.house.gov/Votes
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes

Size and shape

Responses4,985,452
Respondents1,088
Items12,000
Response categories2
Responses per respondent4582.217
Responses per item415.454
Density0.382
LongitudinalTRUE

Columns

cov_partycov_statedateiditemresp

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("rollcall_house")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("rollcall_house")

How to cite

@dataset{clerk_house_rollcall,
  author = {{Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives}},
  title = {Roll Call Votes (Electronic Voting System XML)},
  url = {https://clerk.house.gov/Votes},
  year = {2024}
}

Version and provenance

IRW versionv439
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_6 v3.7
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/k0pn-7r67
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv3.6
Metadata sourceirw_meta v27.0