Last month, Margaret highlighted the Congress.gov work of four of our colleagues in the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Just a year ago she announced the big news that we added 30,000 bills and resolutions from 1799-1873 to Congress.gov as part of our goal to expand the historical content on the site.
The Congress.gov team continuously receives feedback on ways to improve the site. We receive feedback across a variety of channels, such as comments to this blog, tweets to @Congressdotgov, from the Congress.gov webinars, the virtual public forums we have hosted, and most frequently from the “Site Feedback” link that is towards the top right across the site. We then aggregate all of this into our feedback repository, which helps guide our development decisions.
Sometimes it is a request for additional historical content and sometimes it relates to more efficient search tools for our power users. The focus of today’s release helps with both of these requests. At our Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum we were asked to add addition historical content to the hearing transcripts on the site. We worked to add additional previous congresses and with today’s release we have now added those hearing transcripts to our Browse pages under the Committees section.
We have also received feedback on our Quick Search Form. There has always been a Legislation and Law Numbers box