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GovTrack Announces New Features for the New Congress

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From the announcement on the GovTrack homepage:

  • “The full text of bills is now displayed in HTML and highlights the changes made to the text during its legislative history, such as due to amendments and substitutions.
  • The people pages now show a recent voting history, an ideology meter, and pages for senators show their constituent approval rating.
  • The Subjects page now shows 80 major subject categories to help find interesting subjects.
  • There is a new page for committees but the membership information has not yet been updated for the 110th Congress.
  • The Upcoming Senate Committee Meetings monitor can now be tracked with an iCal feed.

    • Switchover to Democratic Control of Congressional Websites Causes Glitches

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    Follow up to previous postings, House and Senate Websites Are Redesigned and Relaunched and New House Committee on Science and Technology Launches Website, more news about the status of Congressional websites in transition: “HouseDemocrats.gov is coming soon. In the meantime, please visit other House Democratic web sites: www.Speaker.gov; www.democraticleader.house.gov; www.democraticwhip.house.gov“ Related websites that are online… Continue Reading

    Harvard School of Public Heath Study Examines Rate of Homicides and Firearms

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    Press release: “Firearms are used to kill two out of every three homicide victims in America. In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide, researchers at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center found that homicide rates among children, and among… Continue Reading

    Martin Luther King, Jr.

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    The Meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, by Coretta Scott King A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by Professor Melvin Sylvester: includes a timeline, and bibliography of Dr. King’s writings, links to historical records and legal documents, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project: Stanford University State Department transcript of… Continue Reading