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,2345 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
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
References
- 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.
- 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.
