get_recent_official_communications_by_category

Get lists of official communications to Congress from the president, executive branch agencies and state legislatures to congressional committees.

Provides wrapper functions to access the ProPublica's Congress and Campaign Finance APIs.
The Congress API provides near real-time access to legislative data from the House of
Representatives, the Senate and the Library of Congress.
The Campaign Finance API provides data from United States Federal Election Commission
filings and other sources. The API covers summary information for candidates and
committees, as well as certain types of itemized data.
For more information about these APIs go to: <https://www.propublica.org/datastore/apis>.

Aleksander Dietrichson

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

Joselina Davit

get_recent_official_communications_by_category function

<dl><dt>congress</dt>
<dd>114-116 for House, 96-116 for Senate</dd>
<dt>category</dt>
<dd>ec, pm, pom</dd>
<dt>page</dt>
<dd>Results come in batches of 20. The page parameter specifies which one to retrieve.</dd>
<dt>myAPI_Key</dt>
<dd>API key from Propublica To use the congress API, you must sign up for an API key.</dd></dl>

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Get Recent Official Communications by Category — get_recent_official_communications_by_category

<dl>

<dt>congress</dt>
<dd>114-116 for House, 96-116 for Senate</dd>


<dt>category</dt>
<dd>ec, pm, pom</dd>


<dt>page</dt>
<dd>Results come in batches of 20. The page parameter specifies which one to retrieve.</dd>


<dt>myAPI_Key</dt>
<dd>API key from Propublica To use the congress API, you must sign up for an API key.</dd>

</dl>

get_recent_official_communications_by_category: Get Recent Official Communications by Category

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