This dataset includes information on the presidential legislative program from Harry Truman’s second term through Bill Clinton’s first, as compiled from the annually published volumes of the Public Papers of the Presidents from 1949 through 1996, there is also an updated version of the dataset from 1997 to 2004.
Dataset (1949 - 1996)
Suggested citation: Andrew Rudalevige, Managing the President’s Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Updated Dataset (1997 - 2004)
For the project's research, we have extended Koger's filibuster dataset to include the Obama presidency. With the permission of those who created and extended the original data, we post them below. Please cite the original source as well as this site for use of the extended data.
Dataset (111th to 114th Congres)
Suggested citation: Gregory Koger, Filibustering : A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate (University of Chicago Press, 2010).