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How to Add Congress.gov to your Website

Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez

Recently, changes made to Congress.gov have made searching for specific topics much easier. In our most recent “Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top” blog post, Robert Brammer unveiled the Congress.gov Help Center, a feature that makes the Help pages on Congress.gov searchable. To further facilitate the navigation of our resources, you can embed a Congress.gov search …

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December 2020 Congress.gov New, Tip and Top

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Last month, Robert introduced us to the new Congress.gov Help Center. As part of this month’s release, we have made additional improvements to Help Center search results navigation. Now users can navigate through their search results or return to the results page. The other enhancement to the Help Center is the improved Error Message page …

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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for November of 2020

Posted by: Robert Brammer

In the last release, Andrew shared that we added a video icon to search results for committee meetings that include a video, the Congress.gov Share/Save toolbar was updated, and a button was added to committee prints and committee transcripts pages to read the text from those collections to you. In this release, we are excited …

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Congress.gov: New, Tip, and Top for October 2020

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Last month, Robert and Margaret each shared information about the committee transcripts added to Congress.gov in the first and second set of enhancements respectively. Since Margaret’s post, we have added transcripts for the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses bringing the total up to ten Congresses for this new collection. With this month’s release, we have added …

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Thank You for Joining Us for the Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum

Posted by: Robert Brammer

On September 10, 2020, the Library held its first ever Congress.gov Public Forum to update the public on the work the Library of Congress and its data partners are doing to improve access to legislative information, and more importantly, to listen to your suggestions on how we can better serve your legislative information needs. The …

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Additional Hearing Transcripts on Congress.gov and Other September Enhancements: New, Tip, and Top

Posted by: Margaret Wood

In our first post about enhancements to Congress.gov this month, Robert wrote about the new committee hearing transcripts being added to Congress.gov. In our second release for this month, we are adding hearing transcripts for five additional Congresses: 110th, 111th, 112th, 113th and 114th Congresses. You will now also be able to access links to hearings …

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Explore the Bound Congressional Record on Congress.gov

Posted by: Robert Brammer

We are excited to start adding the volumes of the Congressional Record (Bound Edition) (also referred to as the “Bound Congressional Record”) to Congress.gov. If you’re not familiar with the Congressional Record, it is a record of the debate and proceedings that occur on the floor of Congress. It is published in two different ways. The …

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Announcing a Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum on September 10th!

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Are you a Congress.gov user? Would you like to hear what we have been working on and share your thoughts on Congress.gov? Then sign up for our Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum.This online event is scheduled for September 10, 2020, from 10:00 a.m.  –  noon EDT. In addition to the live forum, we would like to learn …