Predicting who would vote for NSA Mass Surveillance

In 2013, the House of Representatives voted to not stop the National Security Agency's (NSA's) mass surveillance of phone behaviors. We look at two predictors for how a representative voted: their party and how much money they have received from the private defense industry.

Usage

vote_nsa

Format

A data frame with 434 observations on the following 5 variables.

name: Name of the Congressional representative.
party: The party of the representative: D for Democrat and R for Republican.
state: State for the representative.
money: Money received from the defense industry for their campaigns.
phone_spy_vote: Voting to rein in the phone dragnet or continue allowing mass surveillance.

Source

MapLight. Available at http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/741074/amash-amendment-vote-maplight.pdf.

References

Kravets, D., 2020. Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double The Defense Industry Cash. WIRED. Available at https://www.wired.com/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/.

Examples


table(vote_nsa$party, vote_nsa$phone_spy_vote)
#>    
#>     continue_allowing_mass_surveillance rein_in_phone_dragnet
#>   D                                  83                   111
#>   R                                 134                    94
boxplot(vote_nsa$money / 1000 ~ vote_nsa$phone_spy_vote,
  ylab = "$1000s Received from Defense Industry"
)