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get_house_senate_floor_actions_by_date

Get House and Senate Floor Actions by Date

Description

To get the latest actions from the House or Senate floor, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET hhttps://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/chamber/floor_updates/year/month/day.json

Usage

get_house_senate_floor_actions_by_date(
  chamber,
  year,
  month,
  day,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Arguments

`chamber`	house or senate
`year`	YYYY format
`month`	MM format
`day`	DD format
`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 for that date and supports pagination using multiples of 20.

Examples

get_house_senate_floor_actions_by_date('senate', 2017, '05', '02')

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

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

Initial release