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

Here’s a great chance to offer feedback and learn more about Congress.gov from the Law Library of Congress. Register now for the Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum scheduled for September 10, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. – noon EDT. They’ll be talking specifically about data modernization at the library, and who better to talk to LoC about […]

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Lots of enhancements to Congress.gov

Enhancements include a new series of “Two-Minute Tips” videos, a browsable list of Popular Titles and Short Titles of legislation, and indexing of Senate Executive Communications. For more information: List of Congress.gov Enhancements Now over 1,000,000 Items to Search on Congress.gov: Communications and More Added, by Andrew Weber, In Custodia Legis (October 7, 2015). Hat […]

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More updates to Congress.gov

Congress.gov Continues…, by Andrew Weber In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress (May 28, 2015). …improvements have been made to search (results, command line and advanced), alerts, browse, and accessibility. The Federalist Papers have remained a perennially popular item on THOMAS with nearly a million page views over the last two years. Thanks to a […]

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Legislation Email Alerts on Congress.gov

Here’s good news from Andrew Weber, Legislative Information Systems Manager at the Law Library of Congress. Congress.gov now has alerts for Members of Congress, Legislation and Congressional Record! Moving from a 20-year-old system to our new, modern Congress.gov platform has many advantages. One of these is that, starting today, email alerts are available on Congress.gov.  […]

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Congress.gov: out of beta and with new enhancements

The Library of Congress launched Congress.gov in beta two years ago. A few days ago, they removed the beta label — 3 years faster than gmail! There are many new enhancements with this update. Some of the new features include a new Resources section that provides an A-to-Z list of hundreds of links related to […]

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