How to Search For Bills using govtrack.us

Instructional Process

• Open the following page: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse

• Type "entrepreneurship" or key words related to entrepreneurship in the search bar.

• For each individual bill listed, click on the bill and open the bill's overview page, i.e. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1137

• On the wiki page, record the bill number "S. 1137", the bill title "PATENT Act", and prognosis "36% chance of being enacted".

• If there is "See Instead" under prognosis, there is another bill with this same title introduced to Congress. The two bills contain the same content (for the several bills I have checked). If two bills have the same title but not linked to each other, they still have very similar contents.

• Then we click on the "Read Text" and extract the summary of the bill under "A Bill" / "An Act" title: "To amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and for other purposes."

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On the bill page:

Title and bill number:

<title>PATENT Act (S. 1137) - GovTrack.us</title>

Chance of being enacted:

<dt>Prognosis: <dd>

36% chance of being enacted

On the bill text page: Summary: <p class="official-title">To amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and for other purposes.

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