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get_quarter_office_expenses_house_member

Get Quarterly Office Expenses by a Specific House Member

Description

The House of Representatives publishes quarterly reports detailing official office expenses by lawmakers. The Congress API has data beginning in the third quarter of 2009. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/members/member-id/office_expenses/year/quarter.json

Usage

get_quarter_office_expenses_house_member(
  member_id,
  year,
  quarter,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Arguments

`member_id`	The ID of the member to retrieve; it is assigned by the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress or can be retrieved from a member list request.l
`year`	2009-2017
`quarter`	1,2,3,4
`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

the amount a given lawmaker spent during a specified year and quarter by category,

Examples

get_quarter_office_expenses_house_member('A000374', 2017, 4)

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

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

Initial release