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Congress.gov August 2021 New, Tip, and Top

In Custodia Legis: “At the end of July, Andrew shared the enhancements from the last Congress.gov release, which included adding Key Word In Context (KWIC) search results for the Bound Congressional Record and new customization options for bill alerts. With this month’s release, a link to the treaty errata tab from the overview section on treaty detail pages has been added to Congress.gov. The Congress.gov team has also added a “relatedBill” field for searching bill citations on committee meetings and hearings. You can see an example of how this works by clicking here. In this example, the drop-down menu on the global search box was changed to “committee materials” and the search terms used were congressId:117 AND relatedBill:”s1″ This release also adds fields to search for nominations or Senate executive communications that were referred to multiple committees. For example, to search for a nomination that was referred to two or more Senate committees, you can use the “All Congresses” option on the global search drop-down menu and type in this syntax: nominationSenateReferralCommitteeCount:[2 TO *]. Similarly, to search for an executive communication that was referred to two or more Senate committees, you can use the “All Congresses” option on the global search drop-down menu and type in this syntax: executiveCommunicationSenateReferralCommitteeCount:[2 TO *]….”

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