get_recent_personal_explanations_votes_specific_member {ProPublicaR}

Get Recent Personal Explanation Votes by a Specific Member

Description

Lawmakers, mostly in the House but also in the Senate, can make personal explanations for missed or mistaken votes in the Congressional Record. To get recent personal explanations by a specific member that are parsed to individual votes and have an additional category attribute describing the general reason for the absence or incorrect vote, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/members/member_id/explanations/congress/votes.json

Usage

get_recent_personal_explanations_votes_specific_member(
  member_id,
  congress,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Arguments

member_id

The ID of the member to retrieve; it is assigned by the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress or can be retrieved from a member list request.

congress

110-116

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.

Value

List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves the 20 most recent personal explanations by a specific member in the specified Congress, and supports paginated requests using multiples of 20.

Examples

## Not run: 
get_recent_personal_explanations_votes_specific_member('S001193', 115)

## End(Not run)