Congress.gov Continues…

So far, 2015 has been a great year for Congress.gov. First, we launched e-mail alerts in February. Then, we added treaty documents and more in March. With May 28th’s update, 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 lot of hard work by Kelly Yuzawa, you can now read them on Congress.gov. There are two additional items listed on our Fields Values List. One is the Member Bioguide Ids, which is a list of all Members in our system and their unique identifier, and the other is Committee Names and Codes. There are also four new items on our Browse page: Public Laws; Bill and Law Texts Received Today; Bills Introduced by Request; and Bills Introduced as Private Legislation. Speaking of Public Laws, you can now quickly access them from the text drop down menu. Thanks to all of you for providing us with great feedback on Congress.gov. It keeps fueling our efforts to make the site better and better.