Announcing the Winners of the Library of Congress Friends’ Choice Civics Video Game Challenge
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Announcing the Winners of the Library of Congress Friends' Choice Civics Video Game Challenge
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Watch a Recording of the 2023 Congress.gov Public Forum
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Watch a recording of the 2023 Congress.gov Public Forum.
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Join Us for a Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum on September 21st!
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We are pleased to announce that we are holding a “Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum” on September 21st from 1:30-4:30p.m. EDT. If you are a professional or a concerned citizen who uses Congress.gov regularly to keep up with the latest federal legislative activity, we want to hear from you! You can register for this free event …
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2022 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture to Feature U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
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We hope you can join us for the 2022 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture! The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on Thursday, February 17 at 3:30 p.m. EST. This event will be live-streamed. The Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut will introduce the …
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Watch Recordings of Past Law Library Webinars and Events
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Over the past year, the Law Library has held many webinars on topics concerning foreign, international, and comparative law, Law Library collections, as well as how to research U.S. case law, federal statutes, and federal regulations. The Law Library also presented its annual Law Day and Constitution Day events. If you missed any of these …
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Now Available on Congress.gov – The United States Statutes at Large from 1973-1994
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As announced at the Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum, we are excited to bring you more full-text access to legislation in the form of the United States Statutes at Large. Twenty years of law texts, dating from 1973-1994, are now easy to access from Congress.gov. Law texts can be accessed from lists like Public Laws 103rd …
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Charles Evans Hughes: The Supreme Court Justice Who Resigned to Run for President
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The following is a guest post by Sarah McKenna, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a current student of the University of Maryland’s MLIS program. It is very uncommon to leave a job in the federal judiciary to seek elected office. While several presidents were once …
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New Committee Hearing Transcripts on Congress.gov: New, Tip, and Top for September 2020
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We want to hear from you! Your feedback is critical to the development of new features on Congress.gov. We hope you will join us for the Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum today at 10 a.m. EDT. Also, please take a moment to fill out this feedback form to let us know how we can better meet …
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When the Former Vice President of the Confederacy Debated Civil Rights with an African American Congressman
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On January 6, 1874, Robert B. Elliot, an African American representative, from South Carolina debated a landmark civil rights bill on the floor of Congress against the former vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens. Robert B. Elliott served as a prominent delegate to the 1868 South Carolina State Constitutional Convention and was later elected to the …
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