Congress.gov

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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]

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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]

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The resource is a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including:

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ Weber, Andrew. "Introducing Congress.gov!". blogs.loc.gov. Law Library of Congress.
  3. 1 2 Kolawole, Emi (September 19, 2012). "Congress.gov launches; THOMAS legislative database gets a face lift" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on April 4, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Congress.gov". Rutgers University Libraries . Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ 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.
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