get_house_communication

Retrieve House communication data from Congress.gov API to access executive communications, memorials, presidential messages, and petitions by congress number, type, date range, or specific number.

Instructions

Retrieve House communication information from the Congress.gov API. Full documentation for this endpoint -> https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/blob/main/Documentation/HouseCommunicationEndpoint.md

Args: congress: Congress number (e.g., 118 for 118th Congress) communication_type: Type of communication - ec: Executive Communication - ml: Memorial - pm: Presidential Message - pt: Petition communication_number: Specific communication number offset: Starting record (default 0) limit: Maximum records to return (max 250, default 20) from_datetime: Start timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format) to_datetime: End timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)

Returns: dict: House communication data from Congress.gov API

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`communication_number`	No
`communication_type`	No
`congress`	No
`from_datetime`	No
`limit`	No
`offset`	No
`to_datetime`	No

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{ "properties": { "communication_number": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Communication Number" }, "communication_type": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Communication Type" }, "congress": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Congress" }, "from_datetime": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "From Datetime" }, "limit": { "default": 20, "title": "Limit", "type": "integer" }, "offset": { "default": 0, "title": "Offset", "type": "integer" }, "to_datetime": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "To Datetime" } }, "type": "object" }

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