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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas wrote FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and my first language is …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Jeffrey Helm. Jeffrey is an intern at the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Jeffrey came to the Library of Congress through the Hope College Washington Honors Semester program. During his internship he has been tasked with working on a second (and now third) iteration of the Hispanic Division’s Distant Neighbors: …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Cynthia Jordan, Senior Writer-Editor at the Law Library of Congress. October 13, 2011, is being celebrated around the world as the First Annual International Plain Language Day. This new celebration is planned to coincide with the first anniversary of The Plain Writing Act, Public Law 111-274, enacted October 13, …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This was a great year for Congress.gov. We built upon the work from last year and continued to migrate and improve the Century of Lawmaking content on Congress.gov. In February we added the Congressional Globe to the site and later in November added the Register of Debates. We now have migrated all of the planned content from Century of Lawmaking to Congress.gov.
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We recently conducted interviews with congressional and public users of the website during November and December 2025.
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
With today’s release we are adding the last item from the Debates of Congress, the Register of Debates. This is the last area of content to migrate from Century of Lawmaking to Congress.gov. You can see the Register of Debates starting with the 18th Congress of the Browse page. and through the 25th Congress.
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today's release has multiple smaller enhancements that were also based on user feedback. You are now able to search just titles on the CRS Products Quick Search Form. We added LinkedIn to the share section of the Share/Save toolbar. The Senate Communications search results have now been adjusted to display Number – Descending by default.
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today, in partnership with the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, we are thrilled to announce that beta House Roll Call Votes endpoints are now available from the Congress.gov API. In this first iteration, the beta House Roll Call Votes endpoints cover all votes associated with legislation dating from 2023 (118th Congress). Endpoints include a list-level and item-level, along with a member votes-level, which shows how each member of the House of Representatives voted on a particular piece of legislation.
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We are pleased to announce the new CRS products collection that is searchable within Congress.gov. CRS products include coveted CRS reports, testimony by CRS analysts, infographics, and more. Find descriptions for each CRS product type on our About Congressional Research Service (CRS) Products page. Public access to CRS products, which are produced for the United States Congress by the Congressional Research Service, is improved by several enhancements.
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