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Congress.gov June 2021 New, Tip, and Top

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In May, Andrew highlighted the addition of the Statutes at Large from the 82nd – 92nd Congresses (1951-1972) to Congress.gov. He also mentioned that these laws did not yet have titles listed in Congress.gov, and that the titles would be added in a future release. With this release, the Congress.gov team has added the titles for this collection. This release also provides a significant enhancement to the Bound Congressional Record, which makes it more discoverable and usable. Thanks to the work of Jennifer González’s amazing Law Library interns, the Daily Digest for the Bound Congressional Record, which summarizes the day’s floor and committee actions by each chamber, is now divided up so the user can access it by day. In addition, the advanced legislation search form now allows the user to perform a date search for when a member sponsored or cosponsored a piece of legislation. The complete list of enhancements, which includes improved discoverability for related bills and executive nominations, as well as accessibility improvements, is set out below.

This photo displays the advanced legislation search form on Congress.gov, which now offers users the ability to search for when a member sponsored or cosponsored legislation on a certain date.

The advanced legislation search form now offers the ability to search for when a member sponsored or cosponsored a piece of legislation by date.

Enhancements

Enhancement – Legislation – Advanced Search

  • Use the advanced search form to search for legislation sponsored or cosponsored by a particular member on a specific date or within a range of dates.

Enhancement – Legislation – Statutes at Large

  • Titles display and are searchable for legislation from the 82nd – 92nd Congresses (1951-1972).
  • Bills display a related bills tab where similar legislation has been identified.

Enhancement – Congressional Record – Bound Edition

Search Tip

You can sign up to receive an email each Monday that lists the week’s upcoming committee meetings. Click here and then click “get weekly alerts.”

Most-Viewed Bills

These were the most-viewed bills for the week of June 7, 2021:

1. H.R.1319 [117th] American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
2. H.R.1 [117th] For the People Act of 2021
3. S.1260 [117th] Endless Frontier Act
4. H.R.3648 [117th] To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.
5. H.R.5 [117th] Equality Act
6. H.R.6666 [116th] COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act
7. H.R.2316 [117th] Fire Fauci Act
8. H.R.3884 [116th] MORE Act of 2020
9. H.R.6 [117th] American Dream and Promise Act of 2021
10. S.937 [117th] COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act

Congress.gov May 2021 New, Tip and Top

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Last month, Robert publicized the addition of historic materials to Congress.gov, including the bound Congressional Record going back to 1951 and the Statutes at Large back to 1973. This month, we are very happy to be introducing a citation tool for Congress.gov users. Over the years, many of our patrons have asked for citation information […]

Explore Congressional Reactions to Historic Events on Congress.gov

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The Congress.gov team has received feedback requesting that we add content from prior congresses to the Congressional Record and public law text collections. We are pleased to announce that we have made substantial progress on this request. The Bound Congressional Record collection now goes back to the 82nd Congress (1951-1953) and the full text of […]

What’s new in Congress.gov? Spring 2021 Edition

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Most of our Congress.gov posts focus on the enhancements which are part of our three week sprint cycles by which we release new material and upgrades to Congress.gov. However, sometimes I like to take a longer look back at the work we have done and provide a bigger snapshot of the Congress.gov enhancements. At the […]

Congress.gov New, Tip and Top for March 2021, Part 1

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Last month, Robert provided news of two enhancements to Congress.gov. The first involved new email alerts for committee profile pages. The second was the addition of 21 years of U.S. Statutes at Large to Congress.gov, which can be accessed through the text tab for bills that became public laws in this time period. As part […]

Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for January 2021

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Last month, Andrew mentioned that the Congress.gov team had added the ability to bundle your various saved search alerts into one consolidated email. This month we are bringing you new search fields to find all amendments for a bill, resolution or amendment, and the ability to display large bill texts in plain text format to […]