Congress.gov Releases The Most Viewed Bills

January 23, 2019

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Congress.Gov, released the top ten most-viewed bills list for the last two weeks (January 7-18). These bills can be past or present and everyone has access.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public.

It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC’s Congressional Research Service.

Congress.gov is usually updated the morning after a session adjourns. Consult Coverage Dates for Legislative Information for the specific update schedules and start date for each collection.

Congress.gov supersedes the THOMAS system which was retired on July 5, 2016. Congress.gov was released in beta in September 2012. The THOMAS URL was redirected to Congress.gov in 2013. The beta label was removed in 2014.

The scope of data collections and system functionality have continued to expand since THOMAS was launched in January 1995, when the 104th Congress convened. THOMAS was produced after Congressional leadership directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.

Congressional documents from the first 100 years of the U.S. Congress (1774-1875) can be accessed through A Century of Lawmaking.

**The Congress.gov top ten most-viewed bills list for week ending January 20, 2019**
1	S.24	Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
2	S.21	Pay Our Coast Guard Act
3	H.R.25	Fair Tax Act of 2019
4	S.J.Res.2	A joint resolution disapproving the President’s proposal to take an action relating to the application of certain sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation.
5	H.R.367	Pay Our Coast Guard Parity Act of 2019
6	S.66	Assault Weapons Ban of 2019
7	H.R.1	To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.
8	H.R.420	To provide for the regulation of marijuana products, and for other purposes.
9	H.R.21	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019
10	H.Res.41	Rejecting White nationalism and White supremacy.

**The Congress.gov top ten most-viewed bills list for week ending January 13, 2019**
1	S.21	Pay Our Coast Guard Act
2	H.R.21	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019
3	S.24	Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
4	S.1	Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019
5	H.R.25	FairTax Act of 2019
6	H.R.6061	Secure Fence Act of 2006
7	S.66	A bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
8	H.R.1	To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.
9	H.R.1	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
10	H.Res.13	Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.