We have been working on migrating content from Century of Lawmaking to Congress.gov over the last few years. We kicked this off with migrating 30,000 Bills and Resolutions from 1799-1873. Then, in February 2024, we added the Annals of Congress to Congress.gov. In November last year, we added the Senate Journal to our site. The House Journal was added in the following release. If you are interested in more information on the journals, we have help pages for both the House Journal and Senate Journal.
Earlier this year, in February, we added the Congressional Globe. The Debates of Congress (Congressional Globe, The Annals of Congress, and the Register of Debates) are all predecessors to the Congressional Record, which goes back to 1873 on Congress.gov. The Globe was followed by the Senate Executive Journal going live on Congress.gov in April.
With today’s release we are adding the last item from the Debates of Congress, the Register of Debates. This is also the last area of content to migrate from Century of Lawmaking to Congress.gov. You can see the Register of Debates starting with the 18th Congress of the Browse page. and through the 25th Congress.
The Browse page of Congress.gov for the 18th Congress highlighting the new Register of Debates Section
Migrating the content from a legacy website is a unique experience. Some of the data is easier to migrate than others. Our team has worked extremely hard to bring us to this point.
As we continue to refine what we have migrated to Congress.gov, we hope to enhance the user experience. There will be some clean up work to refine this. We include a note “Ask a Librarian: Congress.gov if you need assistance during this improvement period.” Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions or share any feedback. We hope to provide a valuable resource from the beginning of Congress to the modern era.
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