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

Posted by: Robert Brammer

Andrew recently brought you an update concerning our work on a unified Congressional Committee Calendar.  So, what’s new for Congress.gov in November? The latest enhancements include an update to the legislation and committee report search forms. Both forms now display committee selection lists that reflect committee name changes throughout the years. Also, legislation search results for a single Congress now include a subcommittee filter so you …

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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

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 …

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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 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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The Latest Congress.gov Search Tip, Enhancements, and Most-Viewed Bills

Posted by: Robert Brammer

In January, the Congress.gov homepage received a new look and a new search form for the House Communications Collection. This month, we are bringing you the latest search tip, site enhancements, and most-viewed bills. Search Tip Adrienne recently featured this search tip on searching the House Communications Collection: A recent update to the Congress.gov homepage introduced a guided search form for House Communications, a data collection added to …