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The Library of Congress announced new House-vote data access through Congress.gov on May 14, 2025, alongside an expanded search form for Congressional Research Service products. The changes added another route for researchers and the public to inspect legislative information.

The May bulletin introduced a beta version of House Votes endpoints in the Congress.gov application programming interface. That interface allows software to retrieve structured information, making it useful for researchers building datasets or tools as well as for organizations presenting congressional activity to readers.

The same update added search options for research products by author, topic and product number. Those identifiers help distinguish a specific report from other material on a broad subject, an important step when following the analysis behind a legislative debate.

The Library's fiscal 2025 annual report places these additions within a wider expansion of congressional collections. It records searchable House roll-call votes from the 118th Congress onward and the incorporation of Congressional Research Service products into the Congress.gov framework. It also notes access to historical House and Senate journals.

The development concerns access to records, rather than an endorsement of any vote or policy. Roll-call information records how a chamber acted on a particular question, while research products supply background and analysis. Keeping the document type, Congress and date attached to a result helps readers use each source in its proper context. The May 2025 release made that information available through additional search and data-retrieval routes.

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