Guide
How Saved Searches Help Track Congressional Bills
Saved searches let account users return to repeat legislative queries and filter combinations for bill tracking, policy monitoring, and research follow-up.
Workflow
- Run a search from the public search page.
- Apply filters that make the result set useful, such as bill type, subject, committee, sponsor state, or lifecycle status.
- Use Save this search and give it a clear name.
- Turn on site alerts if the search should become part of internal monitoring.
- Return to the saved search from the account workspace.
Details
Saved searches store structured filter state, not only a copied URL.
Good saved search names describe the research question, such as energy tax credits, immigration bills in committee, or NY delegation votes.
Saved searches can be added to collections when they belong to a larger research packet.
Questions
What should I save as a search?
Save searches you expect to run more than once, especially topic, committee, state, sponsor, subject, or bill-status filters.
Are saved-search alerts live?
Site alerts are internal notifications. They appear in your account after the alert worker finds newly active matching records.