Category: Government Relations News
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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. But it is only with the collaboration of the Library of Congress to digitize, archive and present…
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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. & Puerto Rico. With additional contributions of computer expertise and a grant to build the public web…
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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.
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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 the present status of UELMA (Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act) . UELMA was drafted in…