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 […]
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 […]
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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Earlier this month, Andrew brought us news that Congress.gov now allows for deep linking, so instead of just linking to the top page of a bill in Congress.gov, you can link to a specific section you want to share. In our second enhancement this month, we are adding sponsorship information to saved search alerts for […]
Robert shared the recent Congress.gov enhancements in December, which included new Committee Schedule navigation and a compact view of cosponsors on legislation. This release includes a new feature that I have been looking forward to. In the XML/HTML view of legislation, you have the option to directly share a link to a section of the legislation. […]
Back in November, Andrew shared that withdrawn cosponsors are now displayed on Senate Amendments in Congress.gov. The November release also brought improvements to the accessibility of search results for patrons using screen readers. With our December release, the addition of next and previous arrows improves navigation between committee hearing detail pages. In addition, the compact view […]
Last month Margaret shared the update to our Committee Profile pages that added new links to our Committee Schedule. This was one in a series of improvements surrounding the Committee Schedule that first launched in January. We added the next three scheduled hearings to the homepage, links from the hearing pages to the legislation or […]
Andrew brought us the last Congress.gov update at the beginning of September. That update included the ability to search the Committee Schedule from the global “All Sources” search option, a new look for the appropriations table, and the addition of Law Library of Congress reports to the homepage. With this release, we are bringing you more […]
One of the new features to Congress.gov that we have been refining this year is the Committee Schedule, which “combines announcements about future House and Senate committee meetings and hearings for the selected week.” Robert announced its launch in January. Since then, we have added indicators for rescheduled and postponed meetings, upcoming meetings to the […]