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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Information Today June 20, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser	Co-Sponsor a Congressional Bill and Track Its Progress Cosponsor.gov is a sweeping expansion of the Citizen Cosponsor Project. The new website will now feature every bill and resolution introduced in the House, from Republicans and Democrats.
U.S. CPSC October 31, 2007	CPSC Acting Chairman Issues Statement on Letter to Congress A response to those who called for his resignation.
Information Today October 20, 2003 George H. Pike	Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act.
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Information Today November 15, 2010 Peggy Garvin	LISA: Real-time Monitoring of State Legislative Action Databases with legislative information and bill text from the fifty states are nothing new. What is significant about LISA is that it brings you the intelligence on legislative action in real-time whenever possible.
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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.
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AFP eWire March 12, 2007	New Congressional Caucus on Philanthropy Formed The first-ever Congressional Philanthropy Caucus has been created in the House of Representatives, and a similar Senate group may be formed soon.
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.
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 May 13, 2010 Greg R. Notess	Google Moves Left to Navigational Search Facets Last week Google rolled out a major set of changes to search engine results pages and several smaller changes to its appearance. Left-hand navigational search facets are now turned on by default.
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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.
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IndustryWeek September 1, 2004 Peter Strozniak	R.I.P. For R&D Credit? The future of the research and development tax credit, which provides nearly $5 billion in annual tax credits to an estimated 10,000 U.S. manufacturers, elapsed for the 11th time this summer and is currently in limbo.
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 2003 David Applegate	Another Stab at Energy Legislation With Republicans now in control of both chambers, energy legislation is a top priority of the House and Senate leadership.
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AFP eWire November 8, 2004	Bush, Congress at Odds Over Charities? At his first press conference since being reelected, President Bush indicated that tax reform will be a priority in his second term and stated that tax incentives for charitable giving are very important and should not reduced.
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