Package: congress 0.1.1

Christopher T. Kenny

congress: Access the Congress.gov API

Download and read data on United States congressional proceedings. Data is read from the Library of Congress's Congress.gov Application Programming Interface (<https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/>). Functions exist for all version 3 endpoints, including for bills, amendments, congresses, summaries, members, reports, communications, nominations, and treaties.

Authors:Christopher T. Kenny [aut, cre]

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# Install 'congress' in R:

install.packages('congress', repos = c('https://christopherkenny.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/christopherkenny/congress/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://christophertkenny.com

On CRAN:

5.97 score 21 stars 22 scripts 721 downloads 25 exports 26 dependencies

Last updated from:07ed16828d. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	147
source / vignettes	OK	212
linux-release-x86_64	OK	150
macos-release-arm64	OK	81
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	98
windows-devel	OK	76
windows-release	OK	91
windows-oldrel	OK	108
wasm-release	OK	140

Exports:cong_amendment cong_bill cong_bound_record cong_committee cong_committee_meeting cong_committee_print cong_committee_report cong_congress cong_crs_report cong_daily_record cong_hearing cong_house_communication cong_house_requirement cong_house_vote cong_law cong_member cong_nomination cong_record cong_request_next cong_senate_communication cong_summaries cong_treaty get_congress_key has_congress_key set_congress_key

Dependencies:askpass cli cpp11 curl dplyr generics glue httr2 lifecycle magrittr openssl pillar pkgconfig purrr R6 rappdirs rlang stringi stringr sys tibble tidyr tidyselect utf8 vctrs withr

Getting started with congress

Rendered fromcongress.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2025-05-23
Started: 2025-05-23

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Request Amendment Information	cong_amendment
Request Bill Information	cong_bill
Request bound Congressional Record Information	cong_bound_record
Request Committee Information	cong_committee
Request Committee Meeting Information	cong_committee_meeting
Request Committee Print Information	cong_committee_print
Request Committee Report Information	cong_committee_report
Request Congress Information	cong_congress
Request Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report Information	cong_crs_report
Request daily Congressional Record Information	cong_daily_record
Request Hearing Information	cong_hearing
Request House Communication Information	cong_house_communication
Request House Requirement data	cong_house_requirement
Request House Roll Call Vote Information	cong_house_vote
Request Law Information	cong_law
Request Member Information	cong_member
Request Nomination Information	cong_nomination
Request Congressional Record Information	cong_record
Request next set of responses	cong_request_next
Request Senate Communication Information	cong_senate_communication
Request Bill Summary Information	cong_summaries
Request Treaty Information	cong_treaty
Check or Get Congress API Key	get_congress_key has_congress_key key
Add Entry to Renviron	set_congress_key