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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – June 2023, Part 2

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Robert shared about the Congress.gov release earlier this June. We have been hard at work with a new set of enhancements and behind the scenes improvements. The committee profile alerts have been updated to now include the bill sponsor when you are emailed. Now when you download your legislation search results you can check "Number of Related Bills" to have those included in your spreadsheet. It is also easier to search nominations using the PN numbers search box.

The central image shows Congressman Elliott speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives. Hanging from the ceiling is a banner with a quotation from his speech: "What you give to one class you must give to all. What you deny to one class. You deny to all." Above are two Civil War scenes of black troops in action. On the left is a full-length statue of Abraham Lincoln, holding a bundle of arrows and his Emancipation Proclamation, standing before the U.S. Capitol.

Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – June 2023

Posted by: Robert Brammer

In the previous release, Andrew mentioned that the Bound Congressional Record on Congress.gov now provides coverage dating back to December of 1873. In this release, we have added labels to help the user distinguish between historical documents and historical bill texts. Search Tip Since the Bound Congressional Record now provides coverage dating back to December …

Screen shot of the Bound Congressional Record first page on December 1, 1873 of the Senate section

Bound Congressional Record Now Back to 1873 in Congress.gov

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Robert announced the our first Congress with the Bound Congressional Record, which is the 103rd, added to the site in the summer of 2020. Since then we have regularly been adding, testing, and reviewing additional Congresses all the way back to when the Bound Congressional Record started. We now have the Bound Congressional Record from the 46th to 103rd Congress on the site, which covers 1873 to 1994.

This is an engraving depicting the assassination of President Garfield

Congressional Reactions to the Assassination of President Garfield in the Bound Congressional Record

Posted by: Robert Brammer

The Bound Congressional Record on Congress.gov now provides coverage back to 1881, so I decided to see if I could find Congressional reactions to the shooting of President Garfield on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station by Charles Guiteau, and the President’s subsequent death on September 19, 1881. The assassin, Charles …