rtimes (version 0.5.0)

cg_membersponsorcompare: Compare bill sponsorship between two members who served in the same Congress and chamber.

Description

Compare bill sponsorship between two members who served in the same Congress and chamber.

Usage

cg_membersponsorcompare(memberid_1 = NULL, memberid_2 = NULL,
  congress_no = NULL, chamber = NULL, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

memberid_1

The member's unique ID number (alphanumeric). To find a member's ID number, get the list of members for the appropriate House or Senate. You can also use the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress to get a member's ID. In search results, each member's name is linked to a record by index ID (e.g., http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001041). Use the index ID as member-id in your request.

memberid_2

See description for memberid_1.

congress_no

The number of the Congress during which the members served.

chamber

One of 'house' or 'senate.

key

(character) your Propublica API key; pass in, or loads from .Renviron as PROPUBLICA_API_KEY. See rtimes-package for info on rate limits.

...

Curl options (debugging tools mostly) passed to HttpClient

Value

Compare bill sponsorship between two members who served in the same Congress and chamber.

References

Congress API docs https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/

See Also

Other congress: cg_billscosponsor, cg_memberappear, cg_memberbioroles, cg_memberbystatedistrict, cg_membersleaving, cg_memberslist, cg_membervotecompare, cg_membervotepositions, cg_newmembers, cg_rollcallvote

Examples

# NOT RUN {
cg_membersponsorcompare(memberid_1 = 'S001181', memberid_2 = 'A000368', 
 congress_no = 112, chamber = 'senate')
# }