Package: congress
Title: Access the Congress.gov API
Version: 0.1.1
Authors@R:
person(given = "Christopher T.",
family = "Kenny",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "ctkenny@proton.me",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9386-6860"))
Description: Download and read data on United States congressional
proceedings. Data is read from the Library of Congress's
Congress.gov Application Programming Interface
().
Functions exist for all version 3 endpoints, including for
bills, amendments, congresses, summaries, members, reports,
communications, nominations, and treaties.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: cli, dplyr, glue, httr2, purrr, rlang, stringr, tibble, tidyr
URL: https://github.com/christopherkenny/congress,
https://christophertkenny.com/congress/
BugReports: https://github.com/christopherkenny/congress/issues
Suggests: httptest2, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (>= 3.0.0),
withr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/Needs/website: christopherkenny/ctktemplate
Language: en-US
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev libssl-dev
Repository: https://christopherkenny.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-26 16:53:32 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/christopherkenny/congress
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 07ed16828d2d4856b991fbe73754ebd783374944
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-26 18:35:38 UTC; root
Author: Christopher T. Kenny [aut, cre] (ORCID:
)
Maintainer: Christopher T. Kenny