Time to Retire the Congressional Record App
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The Congressional Record app will be retired on February 28, 2023.
Category: Congress
Century of Lawmaking–New Look, New Location
Posted by: Jennifer González
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.
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Congress.gov January 2023 New, Tip, and Top
Posted by: Robert Brammer
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 …
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The 2022 Congress.gov Top 22 and Year in Review
Posted by: Andrew Weber
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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Congress.gov December 2022 New, Tip, and Top
Posted by: Robert Brammer
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 …
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Congressional Reactions to the Assassination of President Kennedy in the Bound Congressional Record
Posted by: Robert Brammer
On November 22, 1963, President John Kennedy was felled by Lee Harvey Oswald as his motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Most Americans who were alive during that time still remember exactly where they were when they learned of this tragic event. Since the 59th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death just occurred, …
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Congress.gov November 2022 New, Tip, and Top
Posted by: Andrew Weber
As we continue to add historical data to Congress.gov, we updated the Dates of Past Sessions page back to the first session of the first Congress for both the House and Senate on March 4, 1789. There are links from the Congresses for which we have Browse pages. We also added three new Congresses to …
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Congress.gov October Release – Celebrate the Legislative Process Videos!
Posted by: Margaret Wood
As the October 2022 Congress.gov release is primarily focused on internal technical work and improvements to the system, I thought I would take this moment to highlight in depth one of my favorite features of the Congress.gov homepage – the legislative process videos. A link to the legislative process videos appears on the right hand …
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Thank You for Attending the 2022 Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum!
Posted by: Robert Brammer
On September 21, 2022, the Library of Congress, in collaboration with our data partners, held a Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum to provide updates on the enhancements made to Congress.gov over the past year and provide a forum to learn more about how we can better serve your legislative information needs.
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