1984 United States Congressional Voting Record

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Some information about the study

This data set includes votes for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the CQA. The CQA lists nine different types of votes: voted for, paired for, and announced for (these three simplified to yea), voted against, paired against, and announced against (these three simplified to nay), voted present, voted present to avoid conflict of interest, and did not vote or otherwise make a position known (these three simplified to an unknown disposition).

Variables

The data consists of the class variable and the following 16 variables:

1.	Class:	republican, democrat
2.	Handicapped infants	yea, nay, unknown
3.	Water project cost sharing	yea, nay, unknown
4.	Adoption of the budget resolution	yea, nay, unknown
5.	Physician fee freeze	yea, nay, unknown
6.	El Salvador aid	yea, nay, unknown
7.	Religious groups in schools	yea, nay, unknown
8.	Anti satellite test ban	yea, nay, unknown
9.	Aid to Nicaraguan contras	yea, nay, unknown
10.	Mx missile	yea, nay, unknown
11.	Immigration	yea, nay, unknown
12.	Synfuels corporation cutback	yea, nay, unknown
13.	Education spending	yea, nay, unknown
14.	Superfund right to sue	yea, nay, unknown
15.	Crime	yea, nay, unknown
16.	Duty free exports	yea, nay, unknown
17.	Export administration act South Africa	yea, nay, unknown

Reference:
Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 98th Congress, 2nd session 1984, Volume XL: Congressional Quarterly Inc. Washington, D.C., 1985.

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