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Your Congress and Tax Dollars at Work: 2012 CRS Report on Gun Legislation
USA dot gov. The CRS reports are, arguably accordingly to some members of Congress, public documents and many organizations make CRS reports available to the public. You can search for…
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President Obama Announces His Librarian of Congress Nomination
President Obama Announces His Intent to Nominate Carla D. Hayden as Librarian of Congress. Link to the Library of Congress and the Law Library of Congress….
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Office for Access to Justice to be Established in the U.S. Department of Justice?: A Bill in Congress: HR 4501
URL remains unbroken). You can cite the bill as follows (from the Congress dot gov “citation” service): H.R.4501 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): To provide for the establishment of the Office…
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Legislative Words: What are Congressional “Terms,” “Sessions,” “Adjournment,” and “Recesses”?
An annual session ends with an adjournment sine die. Until the next annual session convenes, Congress is then in a period of sine die adjournment (or “intersession recess”). If the…
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U.S. Congress Finally (Almost) Master of its Own Domain: Thomas Becomes Congress
and money saver to us all, and made teaching federal legislative history a little more fun than it was in the all-paper days. So visit Congress dot gov: Let’s hope its…
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The American Way: Speaking Out, Advocacy, Whining, Snipping, and Ranting
U.S. Presidents have been speaking out to members of Congress for a long time, and vice versa. Supreme Court Justices speak out every week, at the very least, and…
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Law Library of Congress Webinars for New Lawyers, Legal Researchers, and Librarians (January 2021)
Ring in 2021 with Law Library of Congress U.S. Law Webinars Orientation to Legal Research: U.S. Case Law: Date: Thursday, January 14, 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST…
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Beyond February 14th: Love, Adultery, and Madness in American History
reading history so absorbing and enlightening. The Library of Congress has marvelous history in small bites blog posts, like this one: “Love, Adultery, and Madness,” February 13, 2015 by Robert…
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Law Library of Congress Webinars – April 2024
is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the congressional member information associated with the legislation, the new…