Behind the scenes at Congress.gov

We've been hearing about the new Congress.gov lately. In Custodia Legis interviews Meg Peters, the Information Architech behind the new site.This is the first in a series of interviews with the people behind the new web site.

Move over THOMAS....

"The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the Government Printing Office (GPO), unveiled Congress.gov, a new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information. Congress.gov features platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation. Congress.gov, at beta.congress.gov, eventually will replace the public THOMAS system and the congressional Legislative Information System (LIS)."

News from the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-171.html

From the release:" The Library is releasing Congress.gov as a beta site to enable a period of time for collecting user feedback and refining functionality while other content is incorporated. Other data, such as the Congressional Record, committee reports, nominations, treaties and communications, will be incorporated over time in a planned, prioritized order. The Library anticipates Congress.gov will operate as a beta site for approximately one year as this work is completed. During that time, both THOMAS and LIS will continue to operate as usual."

Congressional record app

Congressional record app has been updated to work with the iPad and iPhone, support Retina display, and support copy and paste. Learn more at :

Congressional Record App Updated to Include iPhone

July 6th, 2012 by Andrew Weber

Scout

Scout is a free and new legislative research website that covers the 50 states and Congress. It provided daily insight on how laws and regulations are developed in Washington, D.C. You can subscribe to customized or text alerts on regulations and bills.