Function reference • congressionalrecord

All functions
`all_text()`	Read all text from a file
`congress_years()`	Get years for provided congresses
`d_init.rda`	An empty dataframe to to use in place of failed scrape
`extract_names()`	A helper function to extract speakers in the Congressional Record using a regular expression to match how the Record notes speakers.
`get_cr_df()`	The main function to get metadata for the Congressional Record for a given date and section (e.g., "house-section" or "senate-section"). This metadata can then be provided to `get_cr_htm()` to download htm files for the desired sections.
`get_cr_htm()`	A function to download htm files of the Congressional Record for a given url address)
`head_text()`	Extract header text from congressional record htm files
`keyword_sentence()`	Pull sentences that mention given keywords from text files
`make_dir()`	A wrapper for `creat.dir()` if directory does not exist.
`parse_by_speaker()`	A helper function to parse files with more than one speaker
`parse_cr()`	The main function to parse .htm Congressional Record files in a directory by speaker and save parsed .txt files in a parallel directory
`parse_text()`	Map the `parse()` function to a vector of text.
`write_cr()`	Write txt files parsed by legislator using `extractMemberName() from the `legislators` R package

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