Changes in version 0.1.0 (2025-09-02)                  

  - Addresses changes in January 2024-May 2025 API changes
    (#22,#23,#24,#25,#26,#27,#28,#29,#30,#31,#32,#33,#34,#35,#36,#37,#38,#39)
      - Checks that all upstream updates did not impact auto-unlisting
        functions.
      - Adds support for item = 'summaries' in cong_bill()
      - Adds support for item = 'text' in cong_amendment()
      - Adds support for searching members by congress or state (and
        district) in cong_member()
      - Adds support for searching members by current status in
        cong_member()
      - Adds new cong_law() function to use the law endpoint.
      - Adds new cong_crs_report() function to use the crs-report
        endpoint.
      - Adds new (experimental) House vote function cong_house_vote().
  - Improves support for date time formats across the board
  - Fixes too aggressive processing in cong_bill() (#21)

                        Changes in version 0.0.4                        

  - When clean = TRUE, the json version will be downloaded and used to
    clean the object (#17).
  - cong_reports() did not fully rectangularize the data. This has been
    fixed (#18).

                 Changes in version 0.0.3 (2024-01-09)                  

New features

  - When clean = TRUE, a new attribute is added (response_info) which
    provides pagination and request information.
  - When clean = TRUE, date and datetime columns are now converted
    automatically to the correct types.
  - Adds cong_request_next() function which requests the next set of
    results. This can be piped from the last response, such as
    cong_bill() |> cong_request_next() to row bind the results.

Upstream API Updates

  - Addresses changes in December 2023 API changes (#16)
    
      - cong_amendment() can take item = 'text' for congress <= 117 and
        warns otherwise.

  - Addresses changes in October 2023 API changes (#15)
    
      - No changes necessary within congress package. All changes
        upstream automatically handled.

  - Addresses changes in October 2023 API changes (#14)
    
      - No changes necessary within congress package. All changes
        upstream automatically handled.

  - Addresses changes in September 2023 API changes (#13)
    
      - All inputs are internally coerced to lowercase before being
        passed to the API. This excludes cong_treaty() which has
        case-sensitive suffixes.

  - Addresses changes in August 2023 API changes (#12)
    
      - Adds cong_bound_record() to access new
        bound-congressional-record API endpoint.

  - Addresses changes in July 2023 API changes (#11)
    
      - Adds cong_daily_record() to access new
        daily-congressional-record API endpoint.

  - Addresses changes in June 2023 API changes (#10)
    
      - No changes necessary within congress package. All changes
        upstream automatically handled.

  - Addresses changes in May 2023 API changes (#9)
    
      - Supports new item endpoint within cong_house_requirement()
      - Renames (internal) cong_house_communication() endpoint when
        number is provided. This is due to an upstream change from
        house-communication to houseCommunication.

  - Addresses changes in March 2023 API changes (#7)
    
      - Adds cong_hearing() to access new hearing API endpoint.
      - Adds cong_committee_meeting() to access new committee-meeting
        API endpoint.
      - Adds cong_committee_print() to access new committee-print API
        endpoint.

Bug fixes

  - Resolves a bug in cong_senate_communication() where providing number
    would return an empty tibble.
  - Resolves a bug in cong_member() where rows would be duplicated if
    bioguide was provided.
  - Resolves a bug in cong_amendment() where rows would be duplicated if
    item was provided.
  - Resolves a bug in cong_bill() where some rows were (sometimes)
    duplicated if item was provided.

Deprecated functions

  - Removes cong_communication() (Deprecated in 0.0.2) in favor of
    cong_house_communication().

                        Changes in version 0.0.2                        

  - Resolves a bug in cong_bill() where item = 'text' would return an
    empty tibble.

  - Addresses changes in February 2023 API changes (#6)
    
      - Allows for house-communication and senate-communication items in
        cong_committee().
      - Passes on format to cong_senate_communication() for returned
        data in committees list-column.
      - Additional bug fixes in upstream API, which may slightly modify
        columns in cong_member(), cong_committee(), and
        cong_amendment(). These changes were automatically handled in
        version 0.0.1 since February 2023.

  - Addresses changes in January 2023 API changes (#4) and (#5)
    
      - Upstream API changes allow for full coverage of MCs for
        cong_member().
      - Upstream API changes let cong_bill() include CBO estimates.
        These changes were automatically handled in version 0.0.1 since
        January 2023.

  - Addresses changes in December 2022 API changes (#3).
    
      - Adds cong_house_requirement() to access new house-requirement
        API endpoint.

  - Addresses changes in November 2022 API changes (#1) and (#2).
    
      - cong_communication() is deprecated in favor of
        cong_house_communication(), as a new senate endpoint was added.
        This can be accessed via cong_senate_communication().
      - Returned columns are slightly modified for cong_nomination(),
        cong_committee_report(), and cong_nomination(). These changes
        were automatically handled in version 0.0.1 since November 2022.

                 Changes in version 0.0.1 (2022-10-12)                  

  - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
  - Initial release, with functional API for beta version endpoints.