this data may be very nearly identical. the github version is clearly licensed in a way that the other data was not. if you want to work on this data, let me know and i can share the rollcall.Rdata object that might be useful
sadly i'm realizing this is not actually going to be viable given that i think the data is coming from api calls to another location that might not be appropriately licensed.
see here: https://github.com/voteview/Rvoteview/tree/master note that i had already processed similar data from a different source, code here. https://github.com/ben-domingue/irw/blob/main/data/rollcall.R
this data may be very nearly identical. the github version is clearly licensed in a way that the other data was not. if you want to work on this data, let me know and i can share the
rollcall.Rdata
object that might be useful