\HeaderA{HouseVotes84}{United States Congressional Voting Records 1984}{HouseVotes84}
\keyword{datasets}{HouseVotes84}
\begin{Description}\relax
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).
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}data(HouseVotes84)\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Format}\relax
A data frame with 435 observations on 17 variables:
\Tabular{rl}{
1 & Class Name: 2 (democrat, republican)\\
2 & handicapped-infants: 2 (y,n)\\
3 & water-project-cost-sharing: 2 (y,n)\\
4 & adoption-of-the-budget-resolution: 2 (y,n)\\
5 & physician-fee-freeze: 2 (y,n)\\
6 & el-salvador-aid: 2 (y,n)\\
7 & religious-groups-in-schools: 2 (y,n)\\
8 & anti-satellite-test-ban: 2 (y,n)\\
9 & aid-to-nicaraguan-contras: 2 (y,n)\\
10 & mx-missile: 2 (y,n)\\
11 & immigration: 2 (y,n)\\
12 & synfuels-corporation-cutback: 2 (y,n)\\
13 & education-spending: 2 (y,n)\\
14 & superfund-right-to-sue: 2 (y,n)\\
15 & crime: 2 (y,n)\\
16 & duty-free-exports: 2 (y,n)\\
17 & export-administration-act-south-africa: 2 (y,n)\\
}
\end{Format}
\begin{Source}\relax
\Itemize{
\item Source: Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 98th Congress,
2nd session 1984, Volume XL: Congressional Quarterly Inc.,
ington, D.C., 1985
\item Donor: Jeff Schlimmer (Jeffrey.Schlimmer@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu)
}

These data have been taken from the UCI Repository Of Machine Learning
Databases at
\Itemize{
\item \url{ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/machine-learning-databases}
\item \url{http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html}
}
and were converted to R format by Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at.
\end{Source}

