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Campaign Financing Data Easier to Find at New Federal Election Commission Website
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent regulatory agency that administers and enforces federal campaign finance laws. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. New FEC beta website FEC Launches betaFEC Website FEC Press Release.
GPO announces enhancements to MetaLib
Hat tip to InfoDocket for noticing that Metalib, the Government Publishing Office’s meta-search engine, has added several resources. These include a new MetaLib QuickSet called “Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)” and 8 new databases including the Department of Energy’s “OpenNet,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Historical Maps and Charts, and the Catalog of the […]
USA Trade Online now FREE to all
The Census Bureau announced that, on October 15, 2015, “access to USA Trade Online will be FREE to all customers. This transition will be transparent to current users and new users can sign up for free to access data for international trade.” The instructions for depository libraries say that depositories “will no longer have IP […]
Secret GAO Reports
Steven Aftergood says that “The Government Accountability Office this week quietly published a list of titles of its restricted reports that have not been publicly released because they contain classified information or controlled unclassified information.” GAO Posts Titles of Restricted Reports by Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists, Secrecy News (Oct.16, 2015). There are several […]
President Obama interviews Marilynne Robinson
Lunchtime Listen. Yes, you read that right: Listen to President Obama interview Marilynne Robinson, the author novels “Lila,” “Home,” “Gilead” (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and “Housekeeping.” The conversation was recorded in in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 14, 2015. You can listen to it via iTunes on the The New York Review of Books […]
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