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The Animal Welfare Act Grants Protection to Pets and More

Posted by: Anna Price

The following is a guest post by Annie Ross, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a current student of political science and international studies at Northwestern University. On August 24th, 1966, the first federal act to regulate animal welfare in research was signed into law by …

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Presidential Proclamation 10000

Posted by: Margaret Wood

While looking for information in the Code of Federal Regulations over the last couple of years I noticed that we were getting close to the 10,000th presidential proclamation and I thought it would be fun to locate that 10,000th proclamation. But what are proclamations and where are they published? The Law Library’s research guide, Executive …