ProPublicaR (version 1.1.4)

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)

Value

List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves the 20 most recent results and supports pagination using multiples of 20.

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.

Examples

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

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