Category: Government Relations News

House of Reps Own “Cable Channel”

The U.S. House of Representatives Clerk’s,“HouseLive service”, allows you to watch streaming live and archived video feeds of House floor proceedings dating back to 2009. The House Recording Studio had been video taping the proceeding for some time. …

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“Open States” Web Site Has Legistative Information For All States

Reported by Walter Baumann:

The idea for the Sunlight Foundation’s, Open States Project, began in 2009. From an initial core of volunteers from several states, the project has gathered volunteer contributors from all 50 staes plus Wash. D.C. &

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UELMA Introduced in Illinois

The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, or UELMA, has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly.  For more information, see Keith Ann Stiverson’s guest post on Kevin McClure’s Gov Docs Guy blog.…

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2013/02/20/uelma-introduced-in-illinois/

Trusting Online Law – UELMA Has a Way to Go

Reported by Walter Baumann:

In a recent posting on the blog of the Canadian legal news web site, Slaw, Judith Gaskell, former Director of the Law Library of Congress and former Director of the DePaul Rinn Law library, wrote about

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2013/02/06/trusting-online-law-uelma-has-a-way-to-go/