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Archive: August 2020 (20 Posts)

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Explore the Bound Congressional Record on Congress.gov

Posted by: Robert Brammer

We are excited to start adding the volumes of the Congressional Record (Bound Edition) (also referred to as the “Bound Congressional Record”) to Congress.gov. If you’re not familiar with the Congressional Record, it is a record of the debate and proceedings that occur on the floor of Congress. It is published in two different ways. The …

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Einstein’s Fateful Letter

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Between July 18 and August 15, 1939, one of the most consequential letters in modern history was drafted by Albert Einstein and the Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard. The letter, which was eventually delivered to President Franklin Roosevelt,led to the Manhattan Project and the development of the first two atomic weapons. Szilard and two other Hungarian-born physicists, …

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On the Shelf – COVID-19

Posted by: Robert Brammer

This is a guest post by Francisco Macías, head of the Iberia/Rio Office Section in the African, Latin American, and Western European Division (ALAWE) of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate. Francisco was formerly a senior legal information analyst in the Law Library of Congress.  Hello! I wish everyone safety and good health during this …

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Announcing a Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum on September 10th!

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Are you a Congress.gov user? Would you like to hear what we have been working on and share your thoughts on Congress.gov? Then sign up for our Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum.This online event is scheduled for September 10, 2020, from 10:00 a.m.  –  noon EDT. In addition to the live forum, we would like to learn …

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Upcoming US Law Webinars – August 2020

Posted by: Anna Price

Over the past few months we have announced upcoming webinars in individual blog posts. We are switching things up a little and announcing all U.S. law webinars in one blog post for the month of August. We will continue notifying you about individual foreign law webinars, such as the upcoming presentation on global regulation of …