get_recent_personal_explanations_votes

Lawmakers, mostly in the House but also in the Senate, can make personal explanations for missed or mistaken votes in the Congressional Record. Unlike the “Recent Personal Explanations” response, this response contains explanations parsed to individual votes and have an additional category attribute describing the general reason for the absence or incorrect vote. To get lists of recent personal explanation votes, use the following URI structure. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/congress/explanations/votes.json

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_personal_explanations_votes function

<dl><dt>congress</dt>
<dd>101-116</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 Personal Explanation Votes — get_recent_personal_explanations_votes

<dl>

<dt>congress</dt>
<dd>101-116</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_personal_explanations_votes: Get Recent Personal Explanation Votes

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