United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1998

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Label

United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1998

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Contributor

• Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Author

• Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• legislators
• nineteenth century
• political history
• roll call data
• roll call voting records
• United States Congress
• twentieth century
• voting behavior
• rollcall
• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• eighteenth century
• historical data

Genre

• rollcall

Summary

Roll call voting records for both chambers of the United States Congress through the second session of the 105th Congress are presented in this data collection. Each data file in the collection contains information for one chamber of a single Congress. The units of analysis in each part are the individual members of Congress. Each record contains a member's voting action on every roll call vote taken during that Congress, along with variables that identify the member (e.g., name, party, state, district, uniform ICPSR member number, and most recent means of attaining office). In addition, the codebook provides descriptive information for each roll call, including the date of the vote, outcome in terms of nays and yeas, name of initiator, the relevant bill or resolution number, and a synopsis of the issue