proPubBills (version 0.1)

getBills: Gets the bills depending on U.S.Congress, branch, and offsets

Description

Gets the bills depending on U.S.Congress, branch, and offsets

Usage

getBills(key, congress, branch, type, numFrom, numTo)

Arguments

key

is the api key

congress

it the number of the U.S. Congress: for example, 114 for the 114th U.S. Congress

branch

is the House or the Senate branch

type

is the type of bills; options are introduced, updated, active, passed, enacted, vetoed

numFrom

is the offset number beginning range: for example, 1 will get the first 20 bills

numTo

is the offset number to: for example, 40 will get bills 40 to 60. Entering numFrom as 1 and numTo as 40 will return bills 1 to 60

Value

returns a dataframe with all bills and info from the API within the arguments' parameters

References

https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
congress_115_enacted <- getBills(api_key,"115","house","enacted",1,500)
congress_114_introduced <- getBills(api_key,"114","senate","introduced",1,100)
# }