As the October 2022 Congress.gov release is primarily focused on internal technical work and improvements to the system, I thought I would take this moment to highlight in depth one of my favorite features of the Congress.gov homepage – the legislative process videos. A link to the legislative process videos appears on the right hand …
Today we are introducing the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
In July, Andrew and Robert wrote respectively about feedback driven improvements and a new feature which allows users to download audio files for any section of the Congressional Record Daily Edition. This month, users will be able to find a prepopulated list of reports required by Congress under the Committees’ section of the Congress.gov Browse …
In March, I devoted a post to information about the work various staff members at the Library of Congress do for Congress.gov. The post included contributions from Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and Law Library staff and, at the time, I promised we would have a second post with information about the work …
I think many people probably still have an image of the reference librarian as someone who answers calls on an old black rotary phone and helps patrons search the card catalog. The Law Library does have a more up-to-date phone system and the card catalog is online, but in addition to interacting with patrons in these …
While looking for information in the Code of Federal Regulations over the last couple of years I noticed that we were getting close to the 10,000th presidential proclamation and I thought it would be fun to locate that 10,000th proclamation. But what are proclamations and where are they published? The Law Library’s research guide, Executive …
In April, Andrew wrote about the addition of Alerts to member pages so users can be notified when a member in whom they are interested has sponsored or cosponsored a bill. This month, we are releasing another enhancement to Member pages. Now users can directly access their member’s contact information in Congress.gov. simply by clicking …
In December I wrote about the various agencies that contribute to Congress.gov. This month I thought it would be interesting to turn to some of the staff at the Library of Congress and have them speak in their own words about the work they do for Congress.gov. We hope to have a second part to …