congress.gov
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| Available in | English |
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| Created by | Library of Congress |
| Parent | United States Congress |
| URL | www |
Congress.gov is the online database of United States Congress legislative information. It is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate, and the Government Publishing Office.[1]
Congress.gov was in beta in 2012, and beta testing ended in late 2013.[1] It officially launched on July 5, 2016, superseding THOMAS,[2][3][4][5] the Library of Congress's original online database of congressional material, which had been launched in 1995.[6] The website was created by Library of Congress employees using the Solr open-source search platform.[3]
In fiscal year 2015, the Library of Congress reported 36 million page views for congress.gov.[1]
Contents
[edit]The resource is a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including:
- bills and resolutions
- texts
- summaries and status
- voting results, including how individual members voted
- Congressional Record, including the daily digest
- presidential nominations
- treaties
- appropriations
- The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Mazmanian, Adam (April 28, 2016). "Library of Congress to retire Thomas". Federal Computer Week. Archived from the original on June 7, 2016.
- ↑ Weber, Andrew. "Introducing Congress.gov!". blogs.loc.gov. Law Library of Congress.
- 1 2 Kolawole, Emi (September 19, 2012). "Congress.gov launches; THOMAS legislative database gets a face lift". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Howard, Alex (September 19, 2012). "Congress launches Congress.gov in beta, doesn't open the data - O'Reilly Radar". radar.oreilly.com. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
- ↑ "Congress.gov". Rutgers University Libraries. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
- ↑ Gewirtz, David (May 4, 2016). "So long, Thomas.gov: Inside the retirement of a classic Web 1.0 application". ZDNet. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016.