Editing THOMAS (section)

==Contents==
The resource  was a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including:

*[[Bill (proposed law)|bill]]s and [[Resolution (law)|resolution]]s
**texts
**summaries and status
**voting results, including how individual members voted
*[[Congressional Record]], including the daily digest
*[[presidential nomination]]s
*[[Treaty|treaties]]

The database was named after [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was the third [[President of the United States]].<ref>{{cite news |title=THOMAS.gov to Retire July 5 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-16-004/ |access-date=August 30, 2018 |work=News from the Library of Congress |publisher=The Library of Congress |date=April 28, 2016 |language=en}}</ref> "THOMAS" was an [[acronym]] for "The House [of Representatives] Open Multimedia Access System".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vlietstra |first1=J. |title=Dictionary of Acronyms and Technical Abbreviations: For Information and Communication Technologies and Related Areas |date=2001 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9781852333973 |page=624 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1A0Ek7Lh4x8C&pg=PT632 |language=en}}</ref>

The website allowed users to share legislative information via several [[social networking site]]s,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://thomas.loc.gov/help/share.html | title=Sharing THOMAS Content with the Share Tool | website=THOMAS | publisher=[[Library of Congress]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210174053/http://thomas.loc.gov/help/share.html| archive-date=2010-12-10| url-status=dead}}</ref> and there were proposals for an [[application programming interface]].<ref>{{cite magazine | title=the database of United States Congress legislative information | first=Kim | last=Zetter | author-link=Kim Zetter | date=March 5, 2009 | magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] | url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/federal-bill-wo/}}</ref>