get_a_bill: Get a Specific Bill

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

Get a Specific Bill

Description

Use this request type to get details on bills that may be considered by the House or Senate in the near future, based on scheduled published or announced by congressional leadership.

Usage

get_a_bill(congress, bill_id, page = 1, myAPI_Key)

Arguments

congress	105-116
bill_id	a bill slug, for example hr4881 - these can be found in the recent bill response.
page	Results come in batches of 20. The page parameter specifies which one to retrieve.
myAPI_Key	API key from Propublica To use the congress API, you must sign up for an API key.

Details

The responses include a legislative_day attribute which is the earliest the bills could be considered, and a range attribute that indicates whether the bill information comes from a weekly schedule or a daily one. Combine the two for the best sense of when a bill might come up for consideration. For Senate bills, the response includes a context attribute reproducing the sentence that includes mention of the bill. These responses omit bills that have not yet been assigned a bill number or introduced, and additional bills may be considered at any time.

Value

List with the result of the query

Examples

## Not run: 
get_a_bill(115, 'hr21')

## End(Not run)

ProPublicaR documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 5:53 p.m.