get_recent_personal_explanations_votes_specific_member_by_category | R Documentation |
Lawmakers, mostly in the House but also in the Senate, can make personal explanations for missed or mistaken votes in the Congressional Record. To get recent personal explanations by a specific member that are parsed to individual votes and have an additional category attribute describing the general reason for the absence or incorrect vote, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/members/member_id/explanations/congress/votes.json
get_recent_personal_explanations_votes_specific_member_by_category(
member_id,
congress,
category,
page = 1,
myAPI_Key
)
member_id |
The ID of the member to retrieve; it is assigned by the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress or can be retrieved from a member list request. |
congress |
110-116 |
category |
options: voted-incorrectly ( Voted yes or no by mistake), official-business (Away on official congressional business), ambiguous (No reason given), travel-difficulties ( Travel delays and issues), personal (Personal or family reason), claims-voted (Vote made but not recorded), medical ( Medical issue for lawmaker, not family), weather, memorial, misunderstanding, leave-of-absence, prior-commitment, election-related, military-service, other |
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. |
List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves the 20 most recent personal explanations by a specific member in the specified Congress, and supports paginated requests using multiples of 20.
## Not run:
get_recent_personal_explanations_votes_specific_member_by_category('S001193', 115, 'personal')
## End(Not run)
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