cg_memberbioroles: Member bio roles

In ropengov/rtimes: Client for New York Times 'APIs'

Description

Get biographical and Congressional role information for a particular member of Congress.

Usage

cg_memberbioroles(memberid = NULL, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

memberid	The member's unique ID number (alphanumeric). To find a member's ID number, get the list of members for the appropriate House or Senate. You can also use the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress to get a member's ID. In search results, each member's name is linked to a record by index ID (e.g., http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001041). Use the index ID as member-id in your request.
key	(character) your Propublica API key; pass in, or loads from .Renviron as PROPUBLICA_API_KEY. See rtimes-package for info on rate limits.
...	Curl options (debugging tools mostly) passed to HttpClient

Value

List of members of a particular chamber in a particular Congress.

References

Congress API docs https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/

See Also

Other congress: cg_billscosponsor, cg_memberappear, cg_memberbystatedistrict, cg_membersleaving, cg_memberslist, cg_membersponsorcompare, cg_membervotecompare, cg_membervotepositions, cg_newmembers, cg_rollcallvote

Examples

## Not run: 
cg_memberbioroles(memberid = 'S001181')

## End(Not run)

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