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News: Read the daily edition of the Congressional Record on your iPad

Now There’s a Congressional Record App for That
by Andrew Weber

I am very excited that today marks the launch of the Congressional Record App presented by the Library of Congress, an initiative of the House leadership under the guidance of the Committee on House Administration.  The goal of this new free app is straightforward – easily read the daily edition of the Congressional Record on your iPad (and maybe save a few trees in the process).  Just like the Library of Congress does with THOMAS, we are pulling together data from our  partners: the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, and the Government Printing Office.

In the iTunes App Store, we describe the app as being able to:

• Browse editions of the Congressional Record by date: January 4, 1995 (the 104th Congress, 1st Session) to the present
• Perform keyword searches within individual documents or sections within documents
• Share documents via email
• Save documents to your preferred iPad PDF reader
• Identify the latest bills and resolutions considered daily on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Identify the latest bills, resolutions, treaties, and nominations considered daily on the floor of the U.S. Senate

Want even more details about what the Congressional Record is?  See the About the Congressional Record page in THOMAS.

Previously: There’s a Congressional App for That