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Archive for the ‘Gov Docs’ Category
Time to Use RECAP Instead of PACER?
16
Sep
As a quick follow-up to Mark Giangrande’s earlier post about PACER’s fee increase, it seems worth noting that under the new fee structure infrequent PACER users get a bit of a break as long as they do not download 150…
Court Grants Petition to Unseal Nixon’s Watergate Grand Jury Testimony
04
Aug
On July 29, 2011, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth (D.D.C.) granted a petition to unseal President Nixon’s grand jury testimony from June 23 and 24, 1975, plus related Watergate Special Prosecution Force materials. Judge Lamberth, however, denied a petition to…
Time for a Test Drive: Law Revision Counsel Office Releases New USC Website in Beta, Comments and Questions Solicited
03
Aug
The Office of the Law Revision Counsel’s announcement: The Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives has been working to create a new website for the Office and the United States Code. The website…
Apparently the GPO Is Not Considered an Essential Government Service by Some Members of Congress
01
Aug
At least not if one views the issue in the context H.R. 2551, The Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill [Thomas]. Case in point, in response to the GPO’s request for $5 million to continue the development of FDsys, the House cut…
CRS On The Debt Limit
20
Jul
What with all the goings on about the need to raise the debt limit and the implications for doing so, or not, the Congressional Research Service has issued a report entitled The Debt Limit: History And Recent Increases. It doesn’t…
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 2: Moving Beyond Print, Commercial Online Sources and Government-Hosted eSilos
12
Jul
The Illinois Supreme Court announced Tuesday [May 31, 2011] a new way of officially citing its cases and those of the Illinois Appellate Court. This new method will eliminate the need to contractually publish and purchase the official opinions in…
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 1: The Federal Government as Documentation Authenticator, FDsys as a Trusted Repository, and the GPO as a Bulk Distributor of XML Files
06
Jul
For nearly 150 years, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been the official disseminator of Government documents and has assured users of their authenticity. The adoption of digital technology has changed the ways products are created, managed, and delivered…
Documenting the Drafting Process for the Declaration of Independence
04
Jul
Many but probably not most folks know that the Declaration of Independence was not written by Thomas Jefferson. The drafting process may have started at Jefferson’s portable writing desk in Philadelphia but it quickly moved to becoming a product of…
Understanding the US Constitution
04
Jul
OK, so today is not the anniversary of the US Constiution but after reading and understanding the drafting process that produced the Declaration of Independence (see above post), it seem logical that all interested non-specialists make an attempt to under…
