Fetch Bills Cosigned by a Legislator

Retrieves bills that were cosigned by a specific legislator by term and name from the Legislative Yuan API.

Usage

get_ly_legislator_cosign_bills(
  term,
  name,
  page = 1,
  limit = 20,
  show_progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

term

required integer. Legislative term number (e.g. 9)

name

required string. Legislator name in Chinese (e.g. the legislator romanized as "Wang Jin-pyng")

page

integer. Page number for pagination (default: 1)

limit

integer. Number of records per page (default: 20)

show_progress

logical. Whether to display progress info (default: TRUE)

Value

A list containing two components:

metadata

A list containing pagination information:

total

Total number of cosigned bills

total_page

Total number of pages

current_page

Current page number

per_page

Number of records per page

bills

A data frame containing bill information:

billNo

Bill number

billName

Bill name (raw column name is a Chinese label)

billOrg

Proposing unit/legislator (raw column name is a Chinese label)

billStatus

Bill status (raw column name is a Chinese label)

billType

Bill type (raw column name is a Chinese label)

billSource

Source (raw column name is a Chinese label)

meet_id

Meeting ID

session

Session period (raw column name is a Chinese label)

caseNo

Case number (raw column name is a Chinese label)

proposalNo

Proposal number (raw column name is a Chinese label)

term

Term (raw column name is a Chinese label)

mtime

Last modified time

Details

Get Legislator's Cosigned Bills

See also

get_ly_legislator_bills

get_ly_legislator_bills for retrieving bills proposed by a legislator

get_ly_legislator_detail

get_ly_legislator_detail for legislator's detailed information

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get cosigned bills
bills <- get_ly_legislator_cosign_bills(
  term = 9,
  name = "Wang Jin-pyng",  # a legislator's Chinese name goes here
  limit = 5
)

# Print results
print(paste("Total cosigned bills:", bills$metadata$total))
print("Latest cosigned bill:")
print(bills$bills[1, c("billName", "billStatus")])  # actual columns are named in Chinese

# Get second page of results
bills_page2 <- get_ly_legislator_cosign_bills(
  term = 9,
  name = "Wang Jin-pyng",  # a legislator's Chinese name goes here
  page = 2,
  limit = 20
)
} # }