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get_specific_committee

Get a Specific Committee

Description

To get information about a single Senate or House committee, including the members of that committee, use the following function. The committee ids can be found in the committee list responses. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/chamber/committees/committee-id.json

Usage

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

Arguments

`congress`	110-116
`chamber`	house, senate or joint
`committee_id`	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 results and supports pagination using multiples of 20.

Examples

get_specific_committee(115, "senate",
lists_of_committees(115, "senate")$results[[1]]$committees[[1]]$id)

get_specific_committee(115, "senate", "SSAF")

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

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

Initial release