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Bill summaries in XML
GPO and the Library of Congress are now making summaries of House bills available in XML format for bulk data download from GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2014 No. 14-03 GPO AND LOC INCREASE TRANSPARENCY TO CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION HOUSE BILL SUMMARIES NOW AVAILABLE IN XML FORMAT WASHINGTON – The U.S. […]
The Post Office as Bank for the Unserved
Doc of the day: Providing Non-Bank Financial Services for the Underserved, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Report Number:RARC-WP-14-007 (January 27, 2014) [pdf. 33 pages]. Millions of Americans do not have a bank account, or use costly services like payday loans and check cashing exchanges just to make ends meet. The entire underserved population […]
QOTD: Barbara Fister
Quote of the day: Barbara Fister: In an age of austerity, survival is the name of the game, but it’s a rigged game and a distraction from what we’re here for. It’s how we ended up with a precarious faculty, a rented library, and indentured students. We need to focus further out, more broadly on […]
Book lists…
I think it fascinating that government agencies create “reading lists” of recommended books. The Ninth Circuit Library of the United States Courts has a list called Understanding Freedom’s Heritage: How to Keep and Defend Liberty by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy(!). It is described as being prepared for young people and “includes some acknowledged classics and […]
Pete Seeger
In memory of a great American. Pete Seeger who helped create the modern American folk music movement and co-wrote some of its most enduring songs died on Monday at the age of 94. In this performance of “This Land is Your Land,” performed at the “We Are One” Presidential Inaugural Concert on January 19, 2009, […]
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