collectSponsorship: Collecting Sponsorship Information from a 'scrapeBill'...

In gentok/congressbills: Extract and Manipulate Information of US Congress Bills

Description

Collect information regarding sponsorship of the bill.

Usage

collectSponsorship(x, single = TRUE, progress = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A (or A list of) scrapeBill object created by scrapeBill function.
single	Whether to export single row results (see following description). The default is TRUE.
progress	If TRUE, show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.

Value

If single==TRUE, returns data.frame object with following variables (single row):

• Sp_Chamber: Chamber of Primary Sponsor

• Sp_Name: Full Name of Primary Sponsor

• Sp_LastName: Last Name of Primary Sponsor

• Sp_Party: Party of Primary Sponsor

• Sp_State: State of Primary Sponsor

• Sp_District: District of Primary Sponsor (Only for House Representatives)

• Cosp_N: Total Number of Cosponsors

• Cosp_Original: Number of Original Cosponsors

• Cosp_D: Number of Democratic Cosponsors

• Cosp_R: Number of Republican Cosponsors

If single==FALSE, data.frame object with following variables (rows represent sponsors):

• Date: Date of Sponsorship. If Primary Sponsor, this is the bill introduction date.

• Status: Status of Sponsorship. One of "Primary Sponsor," "Original Cosponsor," and "Cosponsor."

• Chamber: Chamber of Sponsor

• Name: Full Name of Sponsor

• LastName: Last Name of Sponsor

• Party: Party of Sponsor

• State: State of Sponsor

• District: District of Sponsor (Only for House Representatives)

See Also

scrapeBill and getscrapeBill

Examples

tgturl <- "https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/19"
bill19 <- scrapeBill(tgturl)
collectSponsorship(bill19)

gentok/congressbills documentation built on Jan. 21, 2020, 5:37 a.m.