get_votes_by_type: Get Votes by Type

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

Get Votes by Type

Description

You can get vote information in four categories: missed votes, party votes, lone no votes and perfect votes. Missed votes provides information about the voting attendance of each member of a specific chamber and congress. Party votes provides information about how often each member of a specific chamber and congress votes with a majority of his or her party. Lone no votes provides information lists members in a specific chamber and congress who were the only members to vote No on a roll call vote, and how often that happened. Perfect votes lists members in a specific chamber and congress who voted Yes or No on every vote for which he or she was eligible. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/chamber/votes/vote-type.json

Usage

get_votes_by_type(
  congress,
  chamber = c("house", "senate"),
  vote_type,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Arguments

congress	102-116 for House, 80-116 for Senate
chamber	house or senate
vote_type	missed, party, loneno or perfect
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 a types of votes of each member of a specific chamber and congress. s

Examples

## Not run: 
get_votes_by_type(114, 'house', 'missed')

## End(Not run)

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