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uscongress (version 1.0.2)

Fetch United States Congressional Records (1995-Present)

Description

Fetch United States Congressional Records from their API such as congressional speeches, speaker names, and metadata about congressional sessions, and detailed granule records. Optional parameters allow users to specify congressional sessions, and the maximum number of speeches to retrieve. Data is parsed, cleaned, and returned in a structured dataframe for analysis.

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install.packages('uscongress')

Monthly Downloads

140

Version

1.0.2

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Steph Buongiorno

Last Published

October 6th, 2025

Functions in uscongress (1.0.2)

get_congressional_records

Retrieve and Process Congressional Record Speeches