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Category Archives: 112th Congress
Paul Ryan: Ideological Location and House and Senate Votes on the Ryan Budget
Below we plot the distribution of DW-NOMINATE (ideological) scores of members of the 112th Congress by chamber and party. We also single out presumptive Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and several figures of interest for comparison. We see … Continue reading
House: Vote on Drought Aid Bill
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot the House’s 223-197 vote on the Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012, a measure designed to provide aid to farmers affected by the Summer drought. House Republicans mostly supported the … Continue reading
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House Vote to Audit the Federal Reserve and Senate Votes to Extend Bush Tax Cuts
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot the House’s 327-98 vote to require a full audit of the Federal Reserve, a measure
House: Vote to Repeal “Obamacare”
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot the House’s 244-185 vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). The vote marked the 33rd time that the 112th House has voted to repeal or defund … Continue reading
House and Senate Votes on Highway, Student Loan, and NFIP Funding
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot the House’s 373-52 vote and the Senate’s 74-19 vote to extending funding for highway, student loan, and National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) programs. The bill was the product of extended … Continue reading
House: Vote to Find Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot the House’s 255-67 vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his refusal to turn over documents related to the House’s investigation into the Justice Department’s … Continue reading
NSF, Political Science Research, and the Development of NOMINATE
In our first book on NOMINATE (Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting, 1997), one of the roll call votes used in the introductory chapter on the spatial model of voting was the Senate’s 1981 vote to restore NSF … Continue reading
Polarization is Real (and Asymmetric)
Revised 16 May 2012 Christopher Hare is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Georgia. Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton … Continue reading
House: Vote to Defund NSF Political Science Program
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot the House’s 218-208 vote on an amendment offered by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) to defund funding for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) political science program. Rep. Flake has an M.A. … Continue reading
House: Votes on the Highway Funding Bill with Keystone Pipeline Mandate and the Small Business Tax Cut Act
Below we use Optimal Classification (OC) in R to plot two recent House votes: its 293-127 vote to pass a highway funding bill with an amendment to require the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline; and its 235-173 vote to … Continue reading