Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – December 2023
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The Congress.gov enhancements for December of 2023.
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An Update on the Congress.gov API
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Today, we are thrilled to announce that the beta label has been removed from the Congress.gov API.
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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – August 2023 – Browse back to the First Congress
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In July, Robert shared news about the new treaty document email alerts. He also shared that we added Browse pages back to the 43rd Congress that included the Bound Congressional Record. We have done a lot of work over the recent months to add historical material and make it more accessible. With this release there …
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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – June 2023, Part 2
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Robert shared about the Congress.gov release earlier this June. We have been hard at work with a new set of enhancements and behind the scenes improvements. The committee profile alerts have been updated to now include the bill sponsor when you are emailed. Now when you download your legislation search results you can check "Number of Related Bills" to have those included in your spreadsheet. It is also easier to search nominations using the PN numbers search box.
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Bound Congressional Record Now Back to 1873 in Congress.gov
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Robert announced the our first Congress with the Bound Congressional Record, which is the 103rd, added to the site in the summer of 2020. Since then we have regularly been adding, testing, and reviewing additional Congresses all the way back to when the Bound Congressional Record started. We now have the Bound Congressional Record from the 46th to 103rd Congress on the site, which covers 1873 to 1994.
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Congress.gov April 2023 New, Tip, and Top
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Last month, Robert shared a post about the U.S.S. Macon in the Bound Congressional Record. We continue to work hard to pull in additional Congresses for this collection. Robert regularly shares some of the congressional reactions to historical events from these time periods including the 1918 flu pandemic, the moon landing, and the Kennedy assassination. …
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New Options for Member Alerts: Congress.gov February 2023 New, Tip, and Top
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Congress.gov uses an iterative design process to get few features and enhancements to you quickly. With the January release Robert shared that member remarks are now included with sponsored and cosponsored legislation on member profile pages. With today's release we build on that by adding option when get alerts for a member to customize what you want to receive.
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Time to Retire the Congressional Record App
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The Congressional Record app will be retired on February 28, 2023.
The 2022 Congress.gov Top 22 and Year in Review
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We are always working to incorporate your feedback into making Congress.gov an even better experience. One major request was one of the biggest items that the Congress.gov team worked on last year: the new Congress.gov API (application programming interface). The API is great if you want to pull a lot of the content of Congress.gov. …
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