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Try the New Experimental Congress.gov Chrome Browser Extension

Posted by: Robert Brammer

Have you ever found yourself reading a news story about legislation, and wished that you could quickly discover the primary source that the article discusses? With that use case in mind, we are excited to bring you an experimental, open source Google Chrome browser extension that will provide you with enhanced access to Congress.gov from third-party webpages, …

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Trending: Congressional Research Service Reports Now Available Online

Posted by: Robert Brammer

This is a guest post by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. It is cross posted on the Library of Congress Blog. I’m pleased to announce that, for the first time, the Library of Congress is providing Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports to the public. The reports are available online at crsreports.congress.gov. Created by experts in CRS, the …

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Constitution Day: Records of the Constitutional Convention

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Today, September 17, is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.  This day has been designated by Congress to recognize the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787 and to recognize all who have become citizens in the last year.  I thought it would be interesting this year to talk about the history of the …

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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for September 2018

Posted by: Robert Brammer

Andrew recently brought us the second set of enhancements to Congress.gov for August, which included improving the search form by labeling the Words & Phrases search and making it larger. In this release, we are excited to bring you enhanced saved search email alerts that are available for searches performed from the legislation homepage search form and the advanced …

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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for August 2018, Part 2

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Robert recently blogged about the first set of enhancements to Congress.gov for August.  Earlier this year, we solicited and received a significant amount of feedback on Congress.gov.  An action item from that was to enhance the search form.  We were told it would be helpful to have the Words & Phrases box be labeled and larger.  …

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Do People Look at Legislation on Their Phones? Yes, They Do!

Posted by: Andrew Weber

The following is a guest post by Leah K. Ibraheem, the web metrics analyst in the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Library of Congress. Natalie shared the news when we hit a big metrics milestone last year of more than a million page views and visits in a single day.  I track metrics across the Library …

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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for August 2018

Posted by: Robert Brammer

At the end of July, Andrew wrote about the updates to Congress.gov, which included enhancements to House committee search functionality; adding a legislative interest column to the House: Legislation with Actions Related to Committees browse page; and the ability to search on legislative interest from the Committees section of the Advanced Search page. Adrienne provides more …