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    Library of Congress Website Gets an Upgrade

    By Alex Fitzpatrick | Mashable – Thu, Sep 20, 2012

    Ever checked out Congress.gov? It's the Library of Congress' one-stop-shop for everything citizens, journalists and researches need to know about legislation, and it just got a major overhaul.

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    The new site has a host of improvements: it's mobile friendly, includes an archive of debate footage as well as profiles of every member of Congress. Additionally, a new search engine drastically improves the ease of finding information about a particular bill.

    Congress.gov, currently in beta, is designed as a replacement for THOMAS, the Library of Congress' previous site for researching legislation. THOMAS will continue to operate for the duration of the new website's beta period -- about a year.

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    What do you think about the new Congress.gov? Let us know in the comments.

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    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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