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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Earlier this month, Margaret shared the enhancements to the Congress.gov Help Center and additional Congresses added to our Bound Congressional Record collection. One of the behind-the-scenes items that we worked on for the latest release was to prepare Congress.gov for the new 117th Congress. We also have been working to make our saved search alerts …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Last month, Robert and Margaret each shared information about the committee transcripts added to Congress.gov in the first and second set of enhancements respectively. Since Margaret’s post, we have added transcripts for the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses bringing the total up to ten Congresses for this new collection. With this month’s release, we have added …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today’s interview is with Suneewan Creech. Suneewan is a legislative data specialist in the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. Before working in CRS, Suneewan worked in the Law Library of Congress. Read her original interview. Describe your background. I started my Library of Congress career as a contractor in the Law Library. I worked as …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Are you a Congress.gov user? Would you like to hear what we have been working on and share your thoughts on Congress.gov? Then sign up for our Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum.This online event is scheduled for September 10, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. – noon EDT. In addition to the live forum, we would like to learn …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today’s interview is with Abby Weiss. Abby is a legislative data specialist in the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. Describe your background. I began as an intern in what was previously the Office of Congressional Information and Publishing, and is now Legislative Information Services, in the Legislative Analysis and Information Section – in CRS. This …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Our first ever post for this blog, published on August 2, 2010, was What Exactly is In Custodia Legis? In it there was a photo of coffee shop/legal counsel office combined. I see this as a good metaphor for the blog. The legal issues and resources we discuss on In Custodia Legis are the kinds …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
In June, Margaret shared that we had added district maps to member profile pages on Congress.gov. Each map on a member profile can be expanded to show a larger size version of the map. With today’s update to Congress.gov, we build upon the district maps by adding a new search box to help you find your member. …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
It occurred to me that with today’s release we are now midway through 2020. I thought it would be nice to take a step back and review the enhancements that we have made with Congress.gov so far this year. For our first release in early January, we added the ability to link directly to a section …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Last month, Amy Swantner shared information about how Legislation Text search results in Congress.gov have been enhanced with Key Word in Context. For today’s release, several helpful new features have been added to Congress.gov. The global search bar has been updated to default to Current Congress instead of Current Legislation, Committee Prints are available for …
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