R: Data Utilities for Congressional Research

# Data Utilities for Congressional Research

## Documentation for package ‘filibustr’ version 0.5.2

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

congress_in_year | Calculate the Congress number of a given year
current_congress | Calculate the current Congress number
get_hvw_data | Get replication data from Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman (2023)
get_les | Get Legislative Effectiveness Scores data
get_senate_cloture_votes | Senate cloture motions and votes
get_senate_sessions | Start and end dates of Senate sessions
get_voteview_cast_codes | Key to Voteview cast codes in individual member votes
get_voteview_members | Get data on members of Congress from Voteview
get_voteview_member_votes | Get data on the votes of individual members of Congress
get_voteview_parties | Get data on congressional parties from Voteview
get_voteview_rollcall_votes | Get data on congressional roll call votes from Voteview
read_html_table | Scrape an online HTML table
year_of_congress | Get the starting year of a Congress