Returns a dataset of nominate scores for Senate members of the the specified congress, available otherwise at VoteView.com.
get_senate_nominate(congress = "ALL")
Number for the congress you're interested in. Defaults to "ALL" to get the most recent scores for every congress.
a data frame containing the relevant legislator names and DW-nominate scores, as well as otherinformation made available by VoteView
https://voteview.com/data
# NOT RUN {
# get the scores for the 116th (2019-2021) congress
senate <- get_senate_nominate(congress=116)
# returned as a data frame
senate
# }
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