We are very excited to bring you the Senate Journal as part of today’s release. There is content for the Senate Journal from the 1st to the 43rd Congress. In addition to searching, it is available from the Browse page.
A Congress.gov interview is with Barbara Perkins, head of the Legislative Analysis and Services Section of the Office of Legislative Information Services in the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
Continuing our series on modernizing the legislative data exchange behind Congress.gov, we are going to look at the next phase of the project – modernizing the exchange of Nominations data.
The first phase of this project was the modernization of the exchange of Executive and Other Communications data. Executive and Other Communications are messages sent to the chambers by the President, executive branch officials, state or local governments, private citizens, and other entities.
As you some of you may know, the Congressional Globe is one of the many historical document treasures that is part of the legacy Century of Lawmaking website. The Globe, as it is usually called, contains the congressional debates of the 23rd through 42nd Congresses (1833-73). The Congress.gov team has been working on a multi-phase modernization of the content on this website which includes Congressional Legislation, Annals of Congress, the Globe, and Register of Debates as well as Senate, House, and Executive Journals.