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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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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 …
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
One of the questions we are frequently asked is how to locate a bill or amendment that a member of Congress has sponsored or cosponsored. There are a few ways to do this on Congress.gov. 1. Visit a member profile page Locate a member you are interested in and open their member profile page. Next, …
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
On February 15th, the Law Library of Congress hosted the 2018 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture with Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Jeffrey P. Minear, Executive Director of the Supreme Court Fellows Program and Counselor to the Chief Justice of the United States, and Jane Sánchez, Law Librarian of Congress, introduced the program. Hon. Gregory …
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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 …
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
Congress.gov alerts are emails sent to you when a measure (bill or resolution), nomination, or member profile has been updated with new information. You can also receive an email after a Member has new remarks printed in the Congressional Record. Here are instructions on how to get an email after a Member has new remarks printed …
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