rollcall_senate

571,378 responses from 212 respondents to 5,956 items.

About this table

DescriptionRecorded roll-call votes of the U.S. Senate, 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. 571,378 votes cast by 212 members on 5956 roll calls; covariates party and state, plus the Unix time of each vote.
ReferenceSecretary of the Senate, U.S. Senate. Roll call votes (LIS XML), https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm

Size and shape

Responses571,378
Respondents212
Items5,956
Response categories2
Responses per respondent2695.179
Responses per item95.933
Density0.453
LongitudinalTRUE

Columns

cov_partycov_statedateiditemresp

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python:

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

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

How to cite

@misc{USSenate2024,
  author = {Secretary of the Senate, U.S. Senate},
  title = {Roll call votes (LIS XML)},
  url = {https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm},
  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