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get_committee_electioneering_communications: Get Electioneering Communications by Specific Committee

Description

HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/campaign-finance/v1/cycle/committees/fec-id/electioneering_communications

Usage

get_committee_electioneering_communications(
  cycle = 2018,
  FEC_ID,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Value

List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves the 20 most recently added FEC independent expenditure-only committees, known as “super PACs” from the campaign-finance API from ProPublica.

Arguments

cycle

The election cycle

FEC_ID

The FEC-assigned 9-character ID of a committee.

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.

Examples

Run this code
if (FALSE) {
get_committee_electioneering_communications(2016, 'C30002034')

}

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