Site Updates – Summer 2012 #1

Busy as always, we’ve got some more new things on GovTrack this month:

• Congressional District Maps now include redistricting maps for the upcoming elections. Except for Rhode Island — we’re still working on locating the new districts there. You can switch back and forth between your current district and the district you’ll be voting in this November.
• The bills page has a new Statistics Tab where you can compare the number of bills enacted in each Congressional session since 1979 and see when during a session bills tend to be introduced and enacted.
• The site now works better on mobile devices with small screen, and we’ll keep improving that.
• Bill text comparisons are now available for comparisons between versions of a single bill and between selected different but related bills.
• The font size has been increased throughout the site in response to feedback we got early on when the new site design went live in March.
• The search pages have been fixed to work on Internet Explorer, they are faster, and got some other usability tweaks.