Earlier this month, Andrew brought us news that the Bound Congressional Record on Congress.gov now provides coverage dating back to 1881. With this release, we are adding enhancements to our historical collection of bills, joint resolutions, and historical documents that was migrated to Congress.gov from the Library of Congress Century of Lawmaking site. Bills and …
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. …
Last month, Andrew brought us news that you can sign up to receive an email alert when a member of Congress provides remarks that are recorded in the Congressional Record. This month’s release concerns a lot of work that occurs behind the scenes, including updates and enhancements to the Congress.gov API and adding a feature …
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.
The Century of Lawmaking website has been migrated to a new, modern platform and continues to offer access to U.S. Congressional history for the first hundred years of the United States, 1774-1873.
Earlier this month, Andrew took a look back at all of the great new features that were added to Congress.gov in 2022. In this release, we have added member remarks in the Congressional Record as a filter on member profile pages. If you access a member’s profile page, you can perform a search and then …
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. …
In the last release, Andrew highlighted the addition of historical data to Congress.gov in the form of updates to the Dates of Past Sessions page that provides coverage back to March 4, 1789, as well as the addition of Congressional Record – Bound Edition coverage for the 53rd – 55th Congresses (1893-1899). In the latest …