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The Library of Congress and GPO Release Ten Years of Legislative Data on GovInfo

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We are excited to announce that the Library of Congress, in partnership with the Government Publishing Office (GPO), the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate, have released ten additional years of Bulk Status XML Bulk Data on GovInfo.

Bulk Legislative Status Data available via GovInfo.

Library of Congress Bill Status Data available via GovInfo.

This bill status information, which is created by the Library, describes the activities and status steps for each legislative measure. The new data spans 2003-2012 (the 108th Congress to the 112th Congress). This is in addition to the bill status information that was already available through GovInfo, which covered 2013-2020 (the 113th Congress to the 116th Congress). This data is also available on Congress.gov for users who would like to search a bill’s status, but do not need access to bulk data.

“We are pleased to make additional years of Library of Congress bill status data available through our partners at the Government Publishing Office,” said Deputy Librarian of Congress for Collections and Services and Law Librarian of Congress Jane Sánchez. “This is the latest example of an enhancement that was created in response to patron feedback. We hope that access to this collection of bulk data will facilitate new innovation and analysis.”

Click here to access the data through GovInfo’s Bulk Data Repository.

An Interview with Annie Naranjo, Global Legal Research Intern

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Today’s interview is with Annie Naranjo, an intern working at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background: I live in Miami, Florida, but I am originally from Pereira, Colombia. This region is famous for its coffee production. Colombian coffee is often considered the best in the world for its quality and delicious […]

December 2020 Congress.gov New, Tip and Top

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Last month, Robert introduced us to the new Congress.gov Help Center. As part of this month’s release, we have made additional improvements to Help Center search results navigation. Now users can navigate through their search results or return to the results page. The other enhancement to the Help Center is the improved Error Message page […]

Irish Supreme Court Rules Subway Serves Freshly Baked Cake

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The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering the United Kingdom and several other jurisdictions. Clare has written a number of posts for In Custodia Legis, including Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; and The UK’s Legal Response to the London Bombings of 7/7. On September […]

An Interview with Viktoria Simone Fritz, Foreign Law Intern

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Today’s interview is with Viktoria Simone Fritz, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Austria. So yes, I do own a dirndl and I absolutely adore our mountains, but only for vacation. I have […]

The 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Compact

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This month marks the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact. Signed on November 21, 1620 (November 11, Old Style), the Mayflower Compact was an agreement that joined the people onboard the Mayflower – the ship that carried the colonists who first settled Plymouth, Massachusetts – in a single self-governing community. People have often […]

Research Guides in Focus – Legal Research: A Guide to Case Law

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The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, the Law Library’s current Librarian-in-Residence. Today we are pleased to be back with another exciting chapter of Research Guides in Focus. We are introducing our newest guide, Legal Research: A Guide to Case Law. This guide covers strategies and resources to aid researchers as they navigate […]