Congress.gov Notifications. Congress.gov Enhancements for September of 2023

Library of Congress sent this bulletin at 09/18/2023 07:50 AM EDT

You are subscribed to Congress.gov Notifications from the Library of Congress.

Congress.gov Enhancements for September of 2023

We are pleased to bring you the Congress.gov enhancements for September of 2023.

Enhancement – Legislation – Download Amendments First Iteration

  • You can use the Download Results link on the amendments tab of a bill to save a spreadsheet of metadata and text where available. See Coverage Dates for availability of amendment text.
  • You may need to wrap text and resize the Amendment Text column in order to view the text in the downloaded Excel file.
  • Extremely large texts will be incomplete.

Congress.gov API

  • The Congress.gov API is no longer in beta as endpoints for all Congress.gov collections have been added.
  • Improvements based on user feedback have been implemented.
  • You can sign up for a key to use the Congress.gov API to retrieve legislative data in a machine-readable format.