Changelog • congress

congress 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.

CRAN release: 2022-10-12