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

Posted by: Andrew Weber

We just passed the two year anniversary of when THOMAS was retired to make way for Congress.gov.  Robert recently shared our second set of enhancements that we had for Congress.gov in June. One area where we have focused is on enhancing committee data.  With this release we are adding a legislative interest column to the House: Legislation with …

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Sign Up Now for the Congress.gov Webinar

Posted by: Robert Brammer

This is a guest post by Ashley Granby Wolf, an intern in the Office of External Relations of the Law Library of Congress. Join us on July 26, 2018 for our live and free Congress.gov webinar hosted by the Law Library of Congress!  Our legal reference experts, Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer , will demonstrate …

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

Posted by: Robert Brammer

Earlier this month, Andrew provided an update on the Congress.gov enhancements, including that the date of the “Previous Meeting” on the homepage is now linked to a list of items that were on the House or Senate floor that day. The previous release also included errata, a published correction for a committee report that, if …

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

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Back in May, Robert provided an update on the Congress.gov enhancements including “the ability to browse legislation using subject terms on ‘all information’ bill detail pages.” One of the new features in the Congress.gov enhancements released today is that the date of the “Previous Meeting” on the homepage will now be linked to a list of …

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

Posted by: Robert Brammer

Andrew shared the news about our second release in April, which included enhancements such as the ability to edit your saved search and adding an afternoon alert. In this release, we have enhanced the ability to browse legislation using subject terms on “all information” bill detail pages, added the option to overwrite or update saved searches, and …

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

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Robert shared the news about our first release in April, which included enhancing the search result sorting.  With this release, we add some additional new features for alerts, such as the ability to edit and change your saved search.  One goal we have is to provide you with timely legislative information.  Another alert enhancement is …

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Discover New Ways to Search Congress.gov

Posted by: Robert Brammer

The following is a guest post by Tina Gheen, the project manager for Congress.gov in the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Library of Congress. Tina was formerly an emerging technologies librarian with the Law Library of Congress. You may have noticed changes to the Congress.gov homepage in one of our recent updates. We streamlined the site …

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

Posted by: Robert Brammer

Today, we’re bringing you the latest Congress.gov updates just in time for the arrival of spring.  Last month, Andrew brought you the latest updates to saved search alert functionality.  For the April release, we have improved the sorting of search results, so that items in the current Congress now appear at the top when sorting by relevancy. Our work on committee …