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get_recent_official_communications

Get Recent Official Communications

Description

To get lists of official communications to Congress from the president, executive branch agencies and state legislatures to congressional committees, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/communications.json

Usage

get_recent_official_communications(congress, page = 1, myAPI_Key)

Arguments

`congress`	114-116 for House, 96-116 for Senate
`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 official communications to Congress from the president, executive branch agencies and state legislatures to congressional committees. The data covers communications to the House of Representatives since 2015, and communications to the Senate since 1979.

Examples

get_recent_official_communications(115)

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

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

Initial release