getSponsors {washex}

Get legislators

Description

Get a list of all sponsors (all congressmembers) for a given biennium

Usage

getSponsors(biennium, type = c("df", "list", "xml"))

Arguments

biennium

Character vector representing the biennium(s) to be searched. Each argument should take the form "XXXX-YY"

type

One of "df", "list", or "xml". Specifies the format for the output.

Value

getSponsors returns an object of type equal to the type argument (defaults to dataframe)

Examples

getSponsors("2007-08")