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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Congress is once again in a lame duck session. The Senate’s Virtual Reference Desk Glossary website defines a lame duck session as: When Congress (or either chamber) reconvenes in an even-numbered year following the November general elections to consider various items of business. Some lawmakers who return for this session will not be in the next …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Being a somewhat organized person, I have already started to plot out my schedule for next year. When I do this, I like to check the calendar and get a list of Federal holidays for the year. This inspired me to think that, as a member of the Law Library blog team, I should write a short article about …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
A friend’s son, who lived in Tanzania for a year, gave me this lovely cloth which hangs in my office. The centerpiece is a picture of Julius Kambrage Nyerere who is considered the father of modern Tanzania. Mwalimu is the Swahili term for teacher which was President Nyerere’s first profession before he entered politics.
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Pamela Barnes Craig, Instruction/Reference Librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Pub. L. 92-318, 86 Stat. 235, 373 turned 40 years old on June 23, 2012. Its birthday passed much like it became law—quietly and unassumingly. Its impact, however, has been …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The Law Library of Congress staff is celebrating the arrival of our new scanner. The scanner is located in the Law Library Reading Room where patrons can now scan materials and download images to a flashdrive. How cool is that!
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by James Martin, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. If it can be said that necessity is the mother of invention, then it can also be said that war is quite often its midwife. This was certainly the case in the American Civil War when …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer, both legal reference librarians in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. The 2012 Presidential election is projected to be close, and attention has turned to whether the Electoral College may diverge from the popular vote in shaping the outcome …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
We often blog about various commemorative events, and I wanted to draw attention to November as National American Indian Heritage Month. This began as a commemorative week in 1986 when Congress passed Pub.L. 99-471 designating November 23-30 as American Indian Week. As directed by Congress in this law, President Reagan issued Presidential Proclamation 5577 in which …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
During my recent trip to New Mexico, I visited the Pecos National Historical Park. This park encompasses the remains of two Indian pueblos as well as a Civil War battlefield. The Pecos National Historical Park and Glorieta Unit of the National Historical Park were established by Pub. L. 101-313, Title II (1990). The park is 25 …
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