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

Posted by: Robert Brammer

On November 22, 1963, President John Kennedy was felled by Lee Harvey Oswald as his motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Most Americans who were alive during that time still remember exactly where they were when they learned of this tragic event. Since the 59th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death just occurred, …

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Congress.gov November 2022 New, Tip, and Top

Posted by: Andrew Weber

As we continue to add historical data to Congress.gov, we updated the Dates of Past Sessions page back to the first session of the first Congress for both the House and Senate on March 4, 1789. There are links from the Congresses for which we have Browse pages. We also added three new Congresses to …

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Congress.gov October Release – Celebrate the Legislative Process Videos!

Posted by: Margaret Wood

As the October 2022 Congress.gov release is primarily focused on internal technical work and improvements to the system, I thought I would take this moment to highlight in depth one of my favorite features of the Congress.gov homepage – the legislative process videos. A link to the legislative process videos appears on the right hand …

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Celebrating 10 Years of Congress.gov

Posted by: Kelly Goles

On September 19, 2012, 10 years ago today, Congress.gov was launched, providing enhanced access to federal legislative information. Congress.gov was created to replace our old THOMAS site that dated back to the 1990s. Congress.gov improved upon Thomas by adding a powerful, modern search engine for legislative information. It also took advantage of the advent of responsive web design, so it will scale to whatever device you are using, whether that is a tablet, phone, or desktop.

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Introducing the Congress.gov API

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Today we are introducing the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.

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Congress.gov August 2022 New, Tip, and Top

Posted by: Margaret Wood

In July, Andrew and Robert wrote respectively about feedback driven improvements and a new feature which allows users to download audio files for any section of the Congressional Record Daily Edition. This month, users will be able to find a prepopulated list of reports required by Congress under the Committees’ section of the Congress.gov Browse …