get_specific_committee: Get a Specific Committee

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

Get a Specific Committee

Description

To get information about a single Senate or House committee, including the members of that committee, use the following function. The committee ids can be found in the committee list responses. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/chamber/committees/committee-id.json

Usage

get_specific_committee(congress, chamber, committee_id, page = 1, myAPI_Key)

Arguments

congress	110-116
chamber	house, senate or joint
committee_id	Committee abbreviation, for example HSAG. Use the full committees response to find abbreviations.
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.

Examples

## Not run: 
get_specific_committee(115, "senate",
lists_of_committees(115, "senate")$results[[1]]$committees[[1]]$id)

get_specific_committee(115, "senate", "SSAF")

## End(Not run)

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