State Agency Databases Activity Report: 12/21/2014
With the quarterly link check ongoing, we continue to see changes to the following pages at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases . (links are to revisions page, click on “page” tab to see regular page): Alabama – Paula Webb California – Joel Rane Delaware – John Stevenson Louisiana – Rita Franks Minnesota – Paul J McDonough Nevada […]
Senate to publish bulk data in XML
Big News! Senate Joins House In Publishing Legislative Information In Modern Formats, by Daniel Schuman. Congressional Data Coalition (December 18, 2014). There’s big news from today’s Legislative Branch Bulk Data Task Force meeting. The United States Senate announced it would begin publishing text and summary information for Senate legislation, going back to the 113th Congress, […]
What makes a “fugitive document” a fugitive?
First off, I’d like to thank GPO (now the Government Publishing Office!) for posting about this Historic Fugitive Document Available through the CGP. I’d like to give a little context and parse out what makes a fugitive document — a document that is within scope of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) but for whatever […]
GPO Is Now The Government Publishing Office
Press Release from GPO GPO Is Now The Government Publishing Office FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2014 No. 14-27 GPO IS NOW THE GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE WASHINGTON – An agency whose mission has been producing, publishing, and recording our Nation’s history has made some history of its own. Section 1301 of H.R. 83, the legislation […]
Senate Torture Report: the Senate Speaks
Our friend Daniel Schuman from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (nee Sunlight) has put together a helpful ebook “Senate Torture Report: The Senate Speaks” (archived copy as ePub, PDF, full text, etc.). The ebook pulls together the speeches on the floor of the Senate of several senators, including the Intelligence Committee Chair […]