get_recent_house_senate_floor_actions: Get Recent House and Senate Floor Actions

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

Get Recent House and Senate Floor Actions

Description

To get the latest actions from the House or Senate floor, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/chamber/floor_updates.json

Usage

get_recent_house_senate_floor_actions(congress, chamber, page = 1, myAPI_Key)

Arguments

congress	114-116 for House, 96-116 for Senate
chamber	house or senate
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.

Value

List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves the 20 most recent results and supports pagination using multiples of 20. The date attribute represents the “legislative day” in which the action took place (actions that occur after midnight often are part of the previous day’s activity).

Examples

## Not run: 
get_recent_house_senate_floor_actions(115, 'house')

## End(Not run)

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