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congress provides amostly tidy interface to the Congress.gov API,available athttps://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/.It provides a simple R interface for downloading and working withactions, bills, nominations, and more from Congress.
You can install the stable version ofcongress fromCRAN with:
install.packages('congress')You can install the development version of congress fromGitHub with:
# install.packages('devtools')devtools::install_github('christopherkenny/congress')
To get the most recentnominations, we can use thecong_nomination()function. By default, it gets the most recent 20. We request here, themost recent 10.
library(congress)cong_nomination(limit=10)#> # A tibble: 10 × 13#> citation congress description latest_action_action…¹ latest_action_text#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <date> <chr>#> 1 PN1293 118 Robin Michelle M… 2024-06-20 Cloture motion pr…#> 2 PN830 118 Patricia L. Lee,… 2024-06-20 Cloture motion pr…#> 3 PN1355 118 Charles J. Willo… 2024-06-20 Cloture motion pr…#> 4 PN1343 118 Stephanie Sander… 2024-06-20 Confirmed by the …#> 5 PN1851 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 6 PN1847 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 7 PN1850 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 8 PN1842 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 9 PN1849 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 10 PN1848 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> # ℹ abbreviated name: ¹latest_action_action_date#> # ℹ 8 more variables: nomination_type_is_civilian <chr>, number <chr>,#> # organization <chr>, part_number <chr>, received_date <date>,#> # update_date <dttm>, url <chr>, nomination_type_is_military <chr>
You can request up to 250 results, usinglimit. Once a request hasbeen made, you can request the next set by using theoffset argument:
cong_nomination(limit=10,offset=10)#> # A tibble: 10 × 13#> citation congress latest_action_action_date latest_action_text#> <chr> <chr> <date> <chr>#> 1 PN1847 118 2024-06-20 Received in the Senate and refer…#> 2 PN1805 118 2024-06-20 Committee on the Judiciary. Hear…#> 3 PN1807 118 2024-06-20 Committee on the Judiciary. Hear…#> 4 PN1842 118 2024-06-20 Received in the Senate and refer…#> 5 PN1808 118 2024-06-20 Committee on the Judiciary. Hear…#> 6 PN1850 118 2024-06-20 Received in the Senate and refer…#> 7 PN1806 118 2024-06-20 Committee on the Judiciary. Hear…#> 8 PN1461 118 2024-06-20 Cloture invoked in Senate by Yea…#> 9 PN1849 118 2024-06-20 Received in the Senate and refer…#> 10 PN1851 118 2024-06-20 Received in the Senate and refer…#> # ℹ 9 more variables: nomination_type_is_military <chr>, number <chr>,#> # organization <chr>, part_number <chr>, received_date <date>,#> # update_date <dttm>, url <chr>, description <chr>,#> # nomination_type_is_civilian <chr>
You can also request the next set using thecong_request_next()function:
cong_nomination(limit=10)|> cong_request_next()#> # A tibble: 20 × 13#> citation congress description latest_action_action…¹ latest_action_text#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <date> <chr>#> 1 PN1293 118 Robin Michelle M… 2024-06-20 Cloture motion pr…#> 2 PN830 118 Patricia L. Lee,… 2024-06-20 Cloture motion pr…#> 3 PN1355 118 Charles J. Willo… 2024-06-20 Cloture motion pr…#> 4 PN1343 118 Stephanie Sander… 2024-06-20 Confirmed by the …#> 5 PN1851 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 6 PN1847 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 7 PN1850 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 8 PN1842 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 9 PN1849 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 10 PN1848 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 11 PN1847 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 12 PN1805 118 Karla M. Campbel… 2024-06-20 Committee on the …#> 13 PN1807 118 Mary Kay Lanthie… 2024-06-20 Committee on the …#> 14 PN1842 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 15 PN1808 118 Julia M. Lipez, … 2024-06-20 Committee on the …#> 16 PN1850 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 17 PN1806 118 Catherine Henry,… 2024-06-20 Committee on the …#> 18 PN1461 118 Nancy L. Maldona… 2024-06-20 Cloture invoked i…#> 19 PN1849 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> 20 PN1851 118 <NA> 2024-06-20 Received in the S…#> # ℹ abbreviated name: ¹latest_action_action_date#> # ℹ 8 more variables: nomination_type_is_civilian <chr>, number <chr>,#> # organization <chr>, part_number <chr>, received_date <date>,#> # update_date <dttm>, url <chr>, nomination_type_is_military <chr>
This package is designed forv3 of theCongress.govAPI. Itcurrently supports the following endpoints:
- bills with
cong_bill() - amendments with
cong_amendment() - summaries with
cong_summaries() - congresses with
cong_congress() - members with
cong_member() - committees with
cong_committee() - committee reports with
cong_committee_report() - committee prints with
cong_committee_print() - committee meetings with
cong_committee_meeting() - Congressional Records with
cong_record() - Daily Congressional Records with
cong_daily_record() - Bound Congressional Records with
cong_bound_record() - House communications with
cong_house_communication() - Senate communications with
cong_senate_communication() - nominations with
cong_nomination() - treaties with
cong_treaty() - hearings with
cong_hearing()
To sign up for an API key, visit theCongress.govAPI sign-up website.
Once you have your key, you can set it in your environment asCONGRESS_KEY. You can:
- Add this directly to your
.Renvironfile with a line like so
CONGRESS_KEY='yourkey'
If doing this, I recommend usingusethis::edit_r_environ() to ensurethat you open the correct .Renviron file.
Set this in you current R session with
Sys.setenv(CONGRESS_KEY='yourkey').Set this using the
congress::set_congress_key()function. To savethis for future sessions, run withinstall = TRUE.
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