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Information Today September 27, 2012 Peggy Garvin	Congress.gov Beta: An Early Look at a New THOMAS The Library of Congress noted that "the [current] system has been updated over the years, but [its] foundation can no longer support the capabilities that today's Internet users have come to expect, including access on mobile devices."
Information Today September 9, 2010	Library of Congress Implements Third Major 2010 Enhancement for THOMAS Latest enhancements add a mobile-friendly homepage, integrate features from the Library of Congress and Law Library of Congress websites into THOMAS, and add a new portal to state legislature websites.
Information Today July 16, 2007 Barbara Quint	Sunlight Foundation Adds LOUIS and Insanely Useful Websites for Congressional Observers Curious what your representatives are doing with your tax dollars? Ask LOUIS, the new search engine from the Sunlight Foundation.
Information Today April 30, 2012	Scout -- A New Free Alert System for Government Information Sunlight Labs introduced Scout, a free alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states.
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson	Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide.
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price	World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
Reason April 2008 Jeff Flake	Passing Bad Laws A short guided tour -- by a congressman -- of the worst bills currently in Congress.
Wired November 2000 David Corn	Filegate.gov The biggest Congressional scandal of the digital age: Politicians aren't putting public docs on the Net, and no one seems to care...
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Roy Mark	Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security.
Information Today January 27, 2011 Peggy Garvin	OpenGovernment.org Beta for State Legislative Data Along with a cooperative network of civic hackers, the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation has launched OpenGovernment.org, a beta site for searching state legislative data.
Geotimes July 2007 Allyson K. Anderson	A Political Comment on ... The Life of a Bill A brief primer on bills originating in the Senate using S. 1321, the Energy Savings Act of 2007, a bill that the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources recently proposed.
Geotimes August 2004 Emily Lehr Wallace	Budget Procrastination If the average American were aware enough of the budget process to be outraged by this governance via procrastination, perhaps the Congress would get the message and perform one of their central duties in an efficient and timely manner.
D-Lib March 2000	American Memory Historical Collection Most of the items within American Memory are primary source documents such as photographs, manuscripts and maps; items which often provide a first hand view of life in the United States.
Information Today June 23, 2015 Corilee Christou	Finding a Librarian of Congress for the Digital Age It's time to move on and finally hire, first and foremost, a Librarian of Congress with the appropriate library degree and experience.
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson	By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 The Library of Congress' By the People, For the People website offers much more than a collection of poster images. It sets the collection within a historical context, describing the purposes, processes, outcomes and legacy of the Federal Arts Project.
T.H.E. Journal October 2005	Library of Congress Launches Website The Library of Congress has launched a Web site to cover the work of a special independent committee that is recommending changes to section 108 of the Copyright Act.
National Defense September 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Congress Should Follow Its Budget Rules Of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will be leaving their positions or retiring this September, none ever had a defense budget passed on time under regular order following the procedures of the Budget Control Act of 1974 during their entire term in office.
T.H.E. Journal February 2002	Library of Congress Launches International Resources Guide The Library of Congress has launched a new online international project called Portals to the World, a guide to Internet resources dealing with the countries and regions of the world...
U.S. CPSC October 31, 2007	CPSC Acting Chairman Issues Statement on Letter to Congress A response to those who called for his resignation.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Top Turkeys of The 2006 Legislative Season As Congress departs for the Thanksgiving holidays, it's time for the first annual Legislative Turkey awards.
Geotimes May 2004 Kendy & Vranes	Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part II Part two in a series on how to effectively lobby your members of Congress.
Information Today June 9, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Readex to Create Digital Edition of U.S. Congressional Serial Set Early Americana aficionados and government documents librarians will especially have cause to celebrate the forthcoming release on the Web of a key historical government resource.
AFP eWire August 7, 2006	Do-Not-Call List to Apply to Political Calls? Congressman John Doolittle (R-Calif.) has introduced legislation that would expand the national Do-Not-Call List to include political calls, including those involving political fundraising.
Real Estate Portfolio Mar/Apr 2007 Art Coppola	Progress in the Policy Arena The dramatic change brought about by the 2006 mid-term elections has placed different representatives, senators and staffs into key positions where they will have important responsibilities for determining the future of REIT issues.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Ryan & Pelot	Congressional Investigations: What Every Exec Should Know When faced with legislative scrutiny, be prepared, be truthful, and don't be afraid to say 'I don't know'... The political pressures on Congress to reduce government spending on healthcare will only increase over time.
Geotimes February 2005 Katie Donnelly	For Starters: Lame Duck Science and technology research and development did not escape the chopping block. The National Science Foundation received a 1.9 percent cut from last year -- the first cut to the agency in 13 years.
InternetNews July 27, 2010	DMCA Ruling Allows iPhone Jailbreaks The Library of Congress has determined that users can modify, or jailbreak, their iPhones and other devices under the fair use protections of that statute.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2011 Morgan Housel	Why Congress Loves Bank Stocks Little wonder that in a world where Congress can legally trade on inside information, the most faith is put in companies where Congress' actions influence most of the outcome.
AFP eWire January 31, 2005	Care Act Included in "Top Ten" Priorities for 109th Congress The Charity Aid, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act has been introduced this year as part of Senate Bill 6 (S. 6), which is one of the top ten legislative priorities for the 109th Congress over the next two years.
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google.
U.S. CPSC July 31, 2008	Acting Chairman Nancy Nord Statement on Congressional Passage of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act In addition to new tools, the bill contains many new missions and mandates for the agency -- responsibilities that are not funded by the bill, Nord said.
AFP eWire September 25, 2006	Congress Approves Database of Federal Grants, Contracts Congress has passed legislation (S. 2590) that would create a searchable database of all federal government spending, including grants to charities.
InternetNews January 6, 2011	House Republicans Push Net Neutrality Repeal The new Congress wasted no time going after the FCC.
Information Today February 28, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser	Big Data, Open Government, and Sunlight Open States is the latest in a collection of Big Data-open government analysis tools from Sunlight Foundation.
Information Today September 2003 Dick Kaser	Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Jennifer Schiff	Library of Congress Readies New Digital Archive After several years of planning and testing, the Library of Congress is about to put its new petascale archive into production.
T.H.E. Journal January 2001	FYI - Library of Congress A new service from the Library of Congress will fill interlibrary loan requests for small, fragile items by scanning the materials and making the images available over the Internet...
InternetNews January 4, 2007 Roy Mark	Dems Go Virtual to Promote New Agenda Second Life press conference promotes network neutrality and online posting of bills before votes.
Information Today October 2, 2008	EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information.
Home Theater February 23, 2009	Satellite Local Coverage Urged A member of Congress is pushing for satellite video services to carry all local channels in all markets.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Is Congress Hurting Market Returns? Practically the entire advance in the market since 1897 corresponds to the periods when Congress is in recess? Investors, take note.
InternetNews February 11, 2011	RSA and Mobile World Congress - Week in Preview Podcast Feb. 15, 2011 What's coming at the RSA and Mobile World Congress Events this week?
Geotimes December 2006 Linda Rowan	A Look Back at the 109th Congress: Like Oil and Water Congress had a year marked by short-term decision-making, in which large emergency spending maintained status quo when it came to natural hazards and energy legislation.
PC Magazine September 26, 2007 Alan Henry	Best of the Internet Seenly online photo booth simulator... Get your questions answered by a librarian at the Library of Congress... TuneGlue music service...
InternetNews May 25, 2010	Next Steps for FCC's Broadband Plan After striking out in court, the FCC's general counsel plots his next moves to regulate the broadband services sector.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Theron Westervelt	Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats.
Geotimes April 2004 Kendy & Vranes	Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part 1 Although it is a tired cliche, knowledge is power, and nowhere is that more true than in legislative politics. Your members of Congress cannot do their jobs without citizens' input. In other words, they need to be lobbied.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2011 Rich Smith	Dear Congress: Please Stop Robbing Us It's time to pass the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act.
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.
InternetNews April 10, 2006 Roy Mark	Security Group Calls on Congress Public confidence in e-commerce will erode if Congress does not step forward and pass a meaningful national data breach disclosure law this year, according to the Cyber Security Industry Alliance.