Collecting Sponsorship Information from a scrapeBill Object.

Collect information regarding sponsorship of the bill.

collectSponsorship(x, single = TRUE, progress = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A (or A list of) scrapeBill object created by scrapeBill function.
single

Whether to export single row results (see following description). The default is TRUE.
progress

If TRUE, show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.

Value

If single==TRUE, returns data.frame object with following variables (single row):

  • Sp_Chamber: Chamber of Primary Sponsor

  • Sp_Name: Full Name of Primary Sponsor

  • Sp_LastName: Last Name of Primary Sponsor

  • Sp_Party: Party of Primary Sponsor

  • Sp_State: State of Primary Sponsor

  • Sp_District: District of Primary Sponsor (Only for House Representatives)

  • Cosp_N: Total Number of Cosponsors

  • Cosp_Original: Number of Original Cosponsors

  • Cosp_D: Number of Democratic Cosponsors

  • Cosp_R: Number of Republican Cosponsors

If single==FALSE, data.frame object with following variables (rows represent sponsors):

  • Date: Date of Sponsorship. If Primary Sponsor, this is the bill introduction date.

  • Status: Status of Sponsorship. One of "Primary Sponsor," "Original Cosponsor," and "Cosponsor."

  • Chamber: Chamber of Sponsor

  • Name: Full Name of Sponsor

  • LastName: Last Name of Sponsor

  • Party: Party of Sponsor

  • State: State of Sponsor

  • District: District of Sponsor (Only for House Representatives)

See also

scrapeBill and getscrapeBill

Examples

tgturl <- "https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/19"
bill19 <- scrapeBill(tgturl)
collectSponsorship(bill19)
#>   Sp_Chamber      Sp_Name Sp_LastName Sp_Party Sp_State Sp_District Cosp_N
#> 1      House Calvert, Ken     Calvert        R       CA          44     37
#>   Cosp_Original Cosp_D Cosp_R
#> 1            12      0     36