recent_bills_by_subject

Use this request type to get the 20 most recently updated bills for a specific legislative subject. Results can include more than one Congress. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/bills/subjects/subject.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

recent_bills_by_subject function

<dl><dt>subject</dt>
<dd>A slug version of a legislative subject, displayed as url_name in subject responses.</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 Bills by a Specific Subject — recent_bills_by_subject

<dl>

<dt>subject</dt>
<dd>A slug version of a legislative subject, displayed as url_name in subject responses.</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>

recent_bills_by_subject: Get Recent Bills by a Specific Subject

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