Usage

The ProPublica Congressional Bills package is a wrapper around the ProPublica Congressional Bills API returns a dataframe with all information within the values provided in the argument's parameters.

Arguments:

• key is the api key
• congress it the number of the congress: for example, 114 for the 114th Congres
• branch is the House or the Senate branch
• type is the type of bills; options are introduced, updated, active, passed, enacted, vetoed
• numFrom is the offset number beginning range: for example, 1 will get the first 20 bills
• numTo is the offset number to: for example, 40 will get bills 40 to 60. Entering numFrom as 1 and numTo as 40 will return bills 1 to 60

Example:

Here is an example that returns 40 bills with an “enacted date” from the 114th Congress.

house_enacted_115 <- getBills(apikey,"115","house","enacted",1,20)