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get_recent_official_communications_by_chamber

Get Recent Official Communications by Chamber

Description

To get lists of official communications to Congress for a specific chamber, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/chamber/committees/committee-id/subcommittees/subcommittee-id.json

Usage

get_recent_official_communications_by_chamber(
  congress,
  chamber,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Arguments

`congress`	114-116 for House, 96-116 for Senate
`chamber`	house or 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 for a specific chamber for the specified chamber, either house or senate.

Examples

get_recent_official_communications_by_chamber(115, 'house')

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

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

Initial release