Get Voting Record for House or Senate By Number, Session & Roll Call Number

Source: R/roll-call.r

Get Voting Record for House or Senate By Number, Session & Roll Call Number

roll_call(critter = c("house", "senate"), number, session = c(1L, 2L),
  rcall)

Arguments

critter

one of `house` or `senate`
number

valid congress number. ProPublica seems to have data going back to the 101st Congress, so valid values are `101`-present Congress number (`115` as of the creation date of the package).
session

a valid session numbner (i.e. `1` or `2` and valid for current year)
rcall

roll call vote number

Value

a `list`, one component of which is a `votes` `data.frame`

Note

Try to cache this data if at all possible. ProPublica is a non-profit organization and this data comes from their Amazon S3 buckets. Every access in a given month ticks down the "free" counter.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# these make API calls so they aren't run in the examples
rep <- roll_call("house", 115, 1, 256)
sen <- roll_call("senate", 115, 1, 110)
# }