Advanced Legislation Search Committee Selection with Committee Name Changes
Enhancement – Advanced Legislation Search – Committee selection pages list all names
When you choose all Congresses on the Advanced Legislation Search, the committee selection pages show committee name changes.
Enhancement – Search Results Navigation – Page through all amendments for a specific bill
From the Amendments tab of a bill with more than one amendment (for example, HR2810), click on an amendment in the list to see the full amendment record.
Use arrows to move to next or previous amendment without needing to return to the list.
Use Back to Amendments link to return to the list on the amendments tab of the bill.
Enhancement – Congressional Record Index Navigation – Page through all entries
Use arrows to move to next or previous entry in the Congressional Record index without needing to return to the main index page.
Use Back to Results link to return to your search results, or to the main index page if you are browsing.
Browse Actions and Cosponsors by Date
New – Actions and Cosponsors by Date – Browse page lists newly added information
Legislative analysts from the Congressional Research Service assign one of 32 policy area terms to every public bill and resolution on Congress.gov. You can use the Subject – Policy Area filter to quickly refine your Congress.gov search results by these policy terms, displaying items that pertain only to a certain subject.
Note that the Subject – Policy Area filter can be selected from any Congress.gov search results list and from Member profiles. The image below demonstrates how to use the filter on Senator Robert C. Byrd’s profile page to view health-related legislation that he sponsored or cosponsored.
Top 10
Below are the Most-Viewed Bills for the week of September 30, 2018. All are from the current Congress.
To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in schools.
