Treaties, Text, and Timely Updates -- Congress.gov Spring Cleaning

Since introducing Congress.gov in September 2012, we have continued to add the databases from THOMAS to the new system. We launched with legislation, followed soon thereafter by the Congressional Record, Committee Reports, and nominations. Now, we are releasing treaty documents.

You can select “All Sources” and search across all of these data sets at once, something that was not possible on THOMAS. With this, all of the data sets in the left hand navigation of THOMAS are included in Congress.gov. We have one more data set that was on the legacy system to add, Senate Executive Communications. The bill text now defaults to the XML/HTML version. What does this actually mean? It is a much better layout that can include a linked table of contents and links to Public Laws and the US Code. It still looks great on mobile devices and is easier to navigate if you can click deeper into the legislation via the table of contents. We continue to take steps to improve Congress.gov. Thanks to all of you for providing us such great feedback during this period of transition from THOMAS. You have certainly helped improve Congress.gov!