Ohio Valley Politics

The Library of Congress’ online congressional information portal, THOMAS, is getting an overhaul. The new site, which is currently in beta testing, can be accessed here and allows users to easily view bills by sponsor and category along with the traditional search.

There’s one obvious feature missing though, RSS feeds. Sure it’s nice to be able to go to a page and see all the bills that Zack Space has introduced without having to go through a bunch of NASA related bills involving a different Zack, but it would be so much better to be notified every time he proposed a new bill. That would make it a snap to follow all 18 Ohio congressmen.

Well after digging around the site I found some good news. Buried away near the bottom of the FAQ page was the following:

RSS feeds are not yet available for THOMAS. We do plan to add this feature in the future.

Yes, you read right. You’ll soon be able to keep track of Congress using RSS without using 3rd party sites.

While we’re on the topic of redesigned websites, go check out the new ProgressOhio.