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get_hearing_specific_committee

Get Hearings for a Specific Committee

Description

To get a list of 20 upcoming Senate or House committee meetings, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/chamber/committees/committee-id/hearings.json

Usage

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

Arguments

`congress`	114-116
`chamber`	house or senate
`committee_id`	Optional 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 hearings and supports pagination.

Examples

get_hearing_specific_committee(115, 'house', 'HSRU')
get_hearing_specific_committee(115, 'house', 
lists_of_committees(115, "senate")$results[[1]]$committees[[1]]$id)

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

Aleksander Dietrichson [aut, cre], Joselina Davit [aut]

Initial release