U.S. House Committee Votes Data

A revised and updated version of the U.S. House Committee Votes dataset is available at the link below. This data is available for non-commercial use, and currently extends from the 104th-114th Congresses. We plan on completing an update of the data soon for the 115th through 118th Congresses, and will continue regular updates. Contact Josh Ryan with any questions, suggestions, or corrections.

See the attached working paper for additional details on the dataset. A codebook is included in Appendix B.

Please cite the working paper when using the dataset:
Ryan, Josh M. and Ryan Bell. 2022. “The U.S. House Committee Votes Dataset.” Working Paper. joshmryan.github.io/votes_data.

Support for this project provided by the Social Science Research Council’s “Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grants,” 2016.

I am currently working on an update for the 115th through 118th Congresses. Changes to how committees report these votes have slowed the process, but I hope to complete the update by Fall 2024.

This version: November 1, 2022. December 2, 2022 (updated to include vote descriptions).

• Paper and codebook

• Data (.7z file, unzips to 150MB .csv file)