rtimes (version 0.3.0)

cg_membervotepositions: Get a list of members who have left the Senate or House or have announced plans to do so.

Description

Get a list of members who have left the Senate or House or have announced plans to do so.

Usage

cg_membervotepositions(memberid = NULL, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

memberid

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.

key

your New York Times API key; pass in, or loads from .Rprofile as nytimes_cg_key, or from .Renviron as NYTIMES_CG_KEY

...

Curl options (debugging tools mostly) passed to GET

Value

List of new members of he current Congress.

Examples

## Not run: 
# cg_membervotepositions('S001181')
# ## End(Not run)