Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – July 2023 – Treaty Document Alerts Are Now Available

In June, Andrew mentioned that committee profile alerts have been updated to include the bill sponsor when you are emailed. Also, when you download your legislation search results, you can check “Number of Related Bills” to have those included in your spreadsheet. Also, it is now easier to search nominations using the PN numbers search box.

In this release, we have added email alerts for treaty documents. To sign up, just click “get alerts” at the top of any treaty document page to receive an email when an action is taken on that treaty or when an amendment is added. In addition, on Committee Schedule Meeting pages, when an amendment is related to the topic of the hearing, that amendment will be displayed and linked to from that page. Finally, now that the Bound Congressional Record provides coverage dating back to December of 1873 (the 43rd Congress), the Congress.gov Browse Page now includes this content.

Enhancements

New – Treaty Documents – Alerts

• Sign in to your account to subscribe to an alert from any active treaty document page.
• You will receive an email whenever there is Senate action on the treaty.
• Manage your treaty document alerts from your account page.

Enhancement – Bound Congressional Record – Browse

• Link from the Browse by Congress page to view bound Congressional Record volumes by date starting with the 43rd Congress.

Enhancement – Committee Meetings – Related Amendments

• Related amendments display in committee meeting overviews.

Congress.gov Tip

You can sign up to receive an email alert each Monday with the projected committee meeting schedule for the coming week. Visit the weekly view of the Committee Schedule Meeting page, and click “get weekly alerts” at the top of the page.

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