Home » Posts tagged 'thomas' (Page 3)
Tag Archives: thomas
GovTrack 2.0
Josh Tauberer has announced changes to his wonderful GovTrack website and service.
- We’ve made a few "tweaks" to GovTrack, by Josh Tauberer, GovTrack blog, (March 19, 2012). ...there are some things missing from GovTrack 2.0 that were in the old site, and if you need them you can still find them for now at http://legacy.govtrack.us, which continues to run the old site. I apologize for discontinuing some features, such as information on amendments, but with the site’s tiny budget I’m just not able to keep everything running at once...
- GovTrack. GovTrack helps you find the status of U.S. federal legislation, voting records for the Senate and House of Representatives, information on Members of Congress, and congressional district maps. Much of the information shown on GovTrack is assembled in an automated way from official government websites. primarily the website THOMAS which is the official website for the status of legislation run by the Library of Congress.
A Roundup of Recent Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The following posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily. The oldest item in this roundup was posted on January 26, 2012. 1. President Requests $231,953,777 for Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 2. MEDLINE/PubMed: List of Serials Indexed for Online Users, 2012 Now Available in XML 3. South Dakota: State Archives Going Digital 4. Recently Launched iOS App: United Nations News Reader from the UN News Centre 5. Full Text of Prepared Testimony: Librarian of Congress, Public Printer, & Others Testify at House Appropriations Committee Hearing (re: FY 2013 Budget) 6. Montana: “New State Librarian Leads Digitization” 7. Government Information: A New Issue of the FDLP Connection Newsletter is Now Online (Vol. 2, Issue 2) 8. New Reference Resource: PACrimeStats.Info (Pennsylvania Crime Data) 9. EPA Releases New Interactive Tool with Information About Water Pollution Across the U.S. 10. FEMA Grant Helps Restore New Orleans’ Katrina-Damaged Archives 11. Listen Online: National Park Service Releases Historic Audio Recordings Made by Thomas Edison’s Recording Engineer 12. New Feature: The World Factbook Now Allows Users to Listen to the National Anthems of Most Countries 13. U.S. Congress: THOMAS Adds Direct Links to House Committee Hearings 14. New Document from NIH: Public Access Policy Implications 15. New Database: See Who’s Donating to Super PACs 16. LOCPix: New iOS App Provides Access to Digitized Photos from the Library of Congress 17. New Interactive Reference Resource: State Transportation Facts and Figures 18. U.S. Congress: Financial Contributions: MapLight Launches New Company Pages 19. Let’s Fly! FAA Launches Mobile Web App 20. New Search Tool from the IRS: Exempt Organizations Select Check Continue reading
Bulk access to THOMAS and Legislation
From a blog post at Sunlight Foundation:
Yesterday, Rep. Bill Foster introduced a bill that would improve public access to legislative information. Specifically, H.R. 6289 calls for: * Bulk access to THOMAS legislative summary and status data, * The creation of an advisory committee that would issue recommendations on improving services provided by THOMAS, and * The Library of Congress to work towards adding bulk access to the full text of legislation. Rep. Foster Introduces Bill To Improve THOMAS, By Daniel Schuman, Sunlight Foundation (09/30/10).Continue reading
THOMAS gets significant new features
THOMAS, the legislative information service hosted by the Library of Congress, has announced new long-needed features and enhancements.
These include:- Bookmarking. Yes, it is now easy to save a permanent link to a page in THOMAS.
- Easy sharing. The same toolbar that gives you a permanent URL, has links for sharing a page using popular sites such as Delicious, Facebook, and Twitter.
- New RSS feed: Bills Presented to the President.
- Top Five Bills. "The five most-searched-for bills from the past week will be listed in the center box on the right side of the homepage." They are listed by bill number, but hovering over them gives you a name.
Thomas offers its first RSS feed
RSS & Email, Law Library of Congress The Law Library of Congress now offers an RSS feed for THOMAS: Daily Digest: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rss/dd.xml . It's pretty bare bones. Just a link to full text, but it is a start! Hat tip to John Wonderlich! Continue reading
Latest Comments