Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2018
LegiStorm now displays general election results on the profile pages of people who ran for Congress and received over 1% of the vote in the 2016 election cycle. LegiStorm editors will be updating the general election data to include the 2018 results immediately after election day. This update is part of a series of features LegiStorm is rolling out this fall to help subscribers track member and staff changes from the mid-term elections through the start of the new Congressional session.
Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2018
LegiStorm updated its
Departing Members section, adding a page to track members who have
Departed Mid-term during the current session. This update is part of a series of features LegiStorm is rolling out this fall to help subscribers track member and staff changes from the mid-term elections through the start of the new Congressional session.
Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2018
LegiStorm launched a major upgrade to our StormFeed search functionality today. StormFeed, improving our ability to surface press releases and tweets for Congressional, Executive and Judicial offices. StormFeed provides real-time access to every press release and tweet from every office on the Hill and hundreds of executive and judicial branch agencies, as well as tweets from current congressional staff. Starting today, LegiStorm is adding tweets for key executive branch officials to the StormFeed search.
Today's StormFeed upgrade includes the following changes:
- Improvements to the StormFeed search form
- Adding tweets from key executive branch officials, including President Donald Trump
- Improved search of committee and leadership staffer tweets
- Improved search of congressional office tweets
- Improved "All Federal" searching
LegiStorm Pro Premium subscribers have the option to set Lightning Alerts and receive email notifications when new press releases or tweets of interest (by member, office and/or keyword) are added. Note that current Lightning Alerts users may receive a one-time alert email containing past results as we synchronize current alerts with the improved search.
Posted on Monday, October 01, 2018
LegiStorm launched two new features today, providing greater insight into the education background of congressional staff and members. The Best Educated Offices list provides an education index that allows the comparison of the average level of formal education attained by congressional staff and members among different offices which vary in staff size and composition.
This education comparison provides certain insights into an office's staffing, hiring and compensation strategy. While the Best Educated Offices index is useful in comparing the average level of formal education attained by staff, this data is not intended to convey any judgment or measurement related to the impact of education on the quality of the staff or the office's ability to carry out its work.
The Salary Rate Analysis by Education page is the latest addition to LegiStorm's Salary Rate Analysis feature, which also includes analysis by member office, position, gender and race. This education analysis includes data on median annual salaries by highest degree attained, median salaries in the best educated offices, and the colleges and universities and schools with the most and the best-paid alumni.
LegiStorm obtains education information for members of Congress and their staff based on a variety of public sources and attempts to verify the accuracy of these records directly with each staffer. The education index is updated daily, indicating real-time changes in the office composition.
Posted on Monday, September 17, 2018
LegiStorm's hearings section, providing a searchable database of past and upcoming House and Senate hearings including related documents, has been updated to bring a more modern and consistent design across the site. The change is part of a larger scale redesign of the site which is being rolled out gradually by section.
View the new hearings design here.
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018
LegiStorm has processed and published the latest data on staff salaries and official expenditures for members, committees, leadership and administrative offices of the House of Representatives. This data, which was released by the Clerk of the House last week, covers the period from April 1 to June 30. LegiStorm staff extensively clean and edit salary and expenditure records before making the information available online in our searchable salary database and expenditure reporting tools.
The next release of salaries is expected in late November, including data from both the House (which releases data quarterly) and the Senate (which releases data semi-annually).
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018
LegiStorm's
salary rate analysis feature provides congressional staff and jobseekers with information about trends in annual pay, including comparisons by member office, position, race and gender. Today, we added charts to show the median staff salary rate by education within each member office and for key roles. Additionally, we made small updates to the Staff Salary Rate History charts found on the member office salary analytics pages to better delineate current and former staff. This is the latest in a series of updates designed to provide more robust and helpful data analytics for LegiStorm subscribers.
Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2018
LegiStorm updated the design of the sections of our site that lists recent congressional staff hires, departures and job changes. This change is part of a larger scale redesign of the site which is being rolled out gradually by section. In addition to making these pages more accessible on mobile devices, the redesign includes the addition of these pages to our main navigation menu, as well as displaying information on the prior position held by new Congressional hires where this information is available.
Subscribers can view the new design for staff hires, departures and job changes from their Pro Dashboard.
Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2018
LegiStorm's trips section, providing statistics and disclosure forms related to privately funded travel by staff and members of Congress, has been updated to bring a more modern and consistent design across the site.
The change is part of a larger scale redesign of the site which is being rolled out gradually by section. In addition to making these pages more accessible on mobile devices, the redesign includes an enhanced travel disclosure search, updates to several graphs analyzing trips and expenditures, and improved browsing of travel by approving member, traveler, sponsoring organization or destination.
View the new trips design here.
Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2018
LegiStorm updated our
Congress By the Numbers feature to include data snapshots of past Congresses. LegiStorm subscribers can compare prior terms, analyzing the age, gender, race and religious breakdown of members and staffers back to the 107th Congress.
