Congress by Sunlight Foundation
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Follow the latest from Washington with (the always free and updated) Congress app from the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation. Learn more about your members of Congress, track activity on bills and more.
• Find your representatives • Information on legislators, bills, votes, committees and hearings • Push notifications for the legislators and bills you follow • Call your representatives directly from the app • Add hearings to your calendar • Lots of other stuff!
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• Fixed an issue rendering the full text of bills • Can open full text of bills in Safari, if that's what you prefer. • Dusted away some cobwebs
• Fixed issue with enabling notifications for the first time • Added ability to open notification and location permissions in Settings app from in-app settings
• Improved location-based legislator lookup when not connected to WiFi • Numerous bug and iOS 8 compatibility fixes • UI Improvements
We've worked with our OpenCongress team to bring you a long requested feature: you can now email your representatives in Congress! Just click the "Email" button on a legislator's profile and we'll walk you through the simple process. Expect more exciting things from OpenCongress in the future.
Other changes include:
• Hello iOS 8! • Easily follow all legislators that represent a given location • Show legislator nicknames for when you are casually hanging out with a member of Congress • UI improvements • Various bug fixes
• Bug fixes.
Never miss an important vote again because you're too engrossed in a House of Cards binge... PUSH NOTIFICATIONS are here! Available options include:
• When a legislator you follow introduces a bill • When a bill you follow is scheduled for a vote • When a bill is signed into law by the president • And much more!
Congress 1.5 also includes visual improvements and bug fixes.
Let us know what you think of this release by rating and reviewing in the App Store or sending us a tweet @congress_app. Your feedback is very much appreciated!
• Fix layout issue with local legislators view • Further UI improvements
• Committee hearing details with description, time, location and related bills • Add upcoming committee hearings to your calendar • Share bills, legislators and committees over AirDrop • UI improvements • Various bug fixes
What better way to show off your new gold iPhone than with a fresh version of Congress for iOS?
- Visual improvements for iOS 7
- Various bug fixes
- Fixed results when searching by bill number
- Various bug fixes
Congress is coming back from August recess. Be ready with a new version of Congress for iOS.
Now featuring COMMITTEES! View all committees and subcommittees of the House and Senate, see leadership and members, and keep an eye on upcoming hearings. When available, you can call the committee office or view their web site.
Other changes include:
- More relevant bill search results
- In-app viewing of bill text
- Navigate to bill from vote screen
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
- Bill search recognizes bill codes
- Modal alerts on network/data errors
- connectivity-related bug fixes
- Various bug fixes
- Added recent votes and sponsored bills to legislator profiles
- Interactive map to find legislators by your location and explore other districts
- Added VoiceOver support
- Assorted visual and design enhancements
- Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements