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Federal Legislative Services 6

Transcripts & 14 Testimony Services

Members & Staff 15

Workflow Tools, User Support, 16 Training & Special Features

1 CQ INSIGHTS & Analysis

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Five blogs featuring expert analysis on key topics important to you.

Agriculture & Food edited by Phillip Brasher Banking & Finance CQ News edited by Ben Weyl Timely Alerts. Archives since 1985. Provides comprehensive and nonpartisan news of Defense (includes Homeland Security) congressional action. Delivers unparalleled coverage and edited by John M. Donnelly analysis from the floor, committee markups, hearings Energy & Environment and more with breaking news throughout the day. edited by Geof Koss • CQ News & Schedules app – Be the first to know Transportation with real-time alerts and calendar integration – customizable in seconds. Get it now for your iPhone/ iPad in the iTunes store. • CQ Now is designed to be the premier real-time Start with our Morning Takes delivered chronicle of the capital’s most important events, direct each day at dawn so you can plan your day. from our newsroom and the hallways of Congress. As your day unfolds, our blog editors will • CQ Action Alerts are the first-word source for provide instant insight and analysis to keep significant events in both chambers of Congress. you ahead of competitors. CQ Analysis The CQ Morning Briefing provides a snapshot of what’s happening in Congress and the administration, alerting you to the issues to watch throughout the day. It is Washington’s morning must-read.

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2 CQ INSIGHTS & Analysis

Schedules CQ Weekly Real-Time Updates. Since 1945. Policy Oriented. Calendar Integration. Award-Winning. Featuring Today at a Glance, a continually CQ Weekly takes you deep inside the policymaking updated calendar and Congressional schedule process and delivers a clear perspective on how with links to relevant news coverage, as well as legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how documents and transcripts of note. the process could affect your interests. Users can browse stories from the current issue by topic, via • Detailed event listings including House and the online subject index and access related links Senate committees, Federal Departments alongside the text of articles including the ability to and Agencies, the White House and more. view profiles of members mentioned in the story, Integrated with your calendar and updated create a related bills chart, and access related throughout the day. documents. CQ Weekly is available in print, PDF, online and mobile devices with an archive of online All the information you need on what’s happening content since the 98th Congress (1983). in Washington. From your mobile device or desktop, access detailed and forward looking event listings, download events to your calendar CQ Weekly Digital Edition and get regular updates on events from Congress, Enhanced Digital Experience the White House, Federal Agencies, Federal for CQ subscribers Courts, policy groups and more. The service is The print magazine now optimized for your desktop, searchable and alertable by keyword, bill number, tablet and mobile device. Get ahead of your work member, committee, and more. week and get access to all the essential policy analysis that keeps you in the know. Subscribers can find CQ Weekly Digital in their inbox on Saturday mornings—available on any desktop, tablet or mobile device.

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No matter what you track, CQ Bill Tracker CQ Alerts will keep you updated! CQ News Morning Headlines CQ News Afternoon Headlines Unparalleled Customization CQ SenateWatch Create your own news and information service from all of CQ’s content – tailored to your CQ Action Alerts by word or phrase, specific areas of interests. subject or bill

Select content from an array of information CQ Schedules (House, Senate or by sources, including congressional news, specific news event schedules, member information, bill tracking HotDocs and more. Amendment Text Customize your alerts based on bill numbers, keywords, members and committees. Choose CRS Reports your delivery options and the format (HTML or text) that best suits your needs. General Topics

4 5 Federal legislative services

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BillTrack & Custom Bill Reports Amendment Text (1986-present) Full-text Amendments. Real-time Legislative Tracker. Alerts Tailored For You. Every Action of Every Bill. Amendment Text provides you with a first-hand Follow your bills in real-time as they travel through look at amendments to the bills you care about, Congress from your desktop or mobile devices. It’s including draft legislation, often before they’ve been like a stock ticker, but for legislation—delivering line- acted on in committee or on the floor. This online item updates on bills important to you when action solution unearths committee and floor amendments occurs on hearings, markups, new amendments, by bill number, date, and committee and sponsor added co-sponsors and much more. This service information. You’ll always be the first to know when includes the ability to create custom bill reports to something happens. The industry’s best editorial summarize the trajectory of the legislation most team will make sure. And our ground-breaking important to you and is searchable and alertable by: technology allows you to customize alerts for your keyword, bill number, committee, subcommittee, legislation so you can act quickly. sponsor, cosponsor, chamber, legislative stage, appropriations bill and more. An archive of content Committee Reports is available since the 99th Congress (1985). (1989-present) Only service which features Bill Text (1987-present) searchable and alertable All bills. Fully searchable. reports and charts. It’s never been easier to pinpoint the language you With Committee Reports from CQ Roll Call, it’s need from a House or Senate bill. Keeps you up- never been easier to obtain the information you to-date on newly introduced legislation and new need on the congressional committees that affect bill language. This online tool is fully searchable, your interests. Get the full text of every committee meaning you get exactly what you’re looking for report, searchable by keyword and bill number, in seconds. Type in your keywords and receive the and organized by the full text, outline and sections language that’s relevant to your agenda, issues or with keywords; updated between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. interests. Plus, Bill Text also links to a PDF from the Committee Reports work in tandem with Committee U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) website. Coverage.

Committee Reports are searchable by: Congress number, Word or phrase, Bill numbers, Committees Chamber, Publication date, Report numbers and Date items added.

6 Federal legislative services

CQ BillTrack gives all the relevant information on any bill at any time.

CQ Committee Markup CQ Bill Analysis & Bill Compare Coverage Hearings & Rosters Expert Synopsis. Detailed Breakdowns. Detailed Amendment Information. (1990-present) Vote Breakdowns. (1989-present) Receive expert summaries and analysis of major bills before Congress, including background information Committee Markup Coverage, Hearings and and prospects for passage. You can make up to six Rosters: Access coverage of key committee and custom requests per year to have our staff analyze subcommittee markups. Reports are typically bills and access an archive of reports since the 104th delivered within 24 hours of the markup’s Congress (1995). Use our unique bill compare tool conclusion and include an easy-to-digest to track the differences in language between the summary, links to important amendments and vote text of two bills. Exact language can be compared breakdowns. Users can also access listings of past between two versions of the same bill, related bills committee hearings, including agendas and witness (including those in the other chamber) or the same lists, and detailed committee rosters complete with bill in past Congresses. jurisdiction overviews, subcommittee breakdowns and staff contact information. All content is searchable and alertable with an archive dating back to the 101st Congress (1989).

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The CQ BillAnalysis dashboard gives you vital information on any bill in just a few clicks.

Congressional Record CQ Floor Votes & (1987-present) Custom Vote Reports Early AM updates. All Floor Votes Since 1983. Easy-to-browse abstract. Exclusive Vote Captions. Every action that’s in play on Capitol Hill. The Congressional Record offers the proceedings and Custom Vote Reports. debates of the House and Senate. Updated daily by Use CQ Floor Votes to see how every member voted 9:00 a.m. when Congress is in session, this must- on the House and Senate floors since the 102nd have legislative resource is now more robust than Congress (1991). We include an overview of each ever—thanks to its quick search tools. To save you vote, the vote count and final outcome—including time, Congressional Record delivers an easy-to- members who abstained. Votes appear within two browse abstract so you can hone in the details and hours of each vote. procedures of major significance to you.

The database is searchable and alertable by keyword, Starting from the 100th Congress in 1987 to the bill number, member, subject, vote number and more. present, the Congressional Record is searchable by: Bill number, keyword, member speeches, Additionally, with CQ Roll Call’s custom vote reports amendments and more. tool, choose any set of votes back to 1991, and any set of members in the House or Senate, and quickly pull together reports showing the positions of those members on those votes. This tool allows you to see the patterns and breakdowns of how members voted compared to each other and the party line. 9 Federal legislative services

CRS Bill Digest (1986-present) U.S. Code Understand every piece of legislation The U.S. Code is the official compilation of federal before Congress laws, organized by subject matter into 51 “Titles.” CQ.com provides the most up-to-date possible Detailed synopses of legislation, with links to related version of the U.S. Code, updating each section as news, analysis and source material, prepared by the new laws that modify it are enacted. Then we link it Congressional Research Service of the Library of all up for you—wherever a section of the U.S. Code Congress. Updated as material becomes available. references a Public Law number, Statute citation or another U.S. Code section, we let you link directly CRS Bill Digest will help you to: Compile summaries to the text to see all of the relationships of legal of bills. Find links to news, analysis and source language in context. You can also browse to the material related to your interests. Set up email alerts next and previous section in that title, or browse the to stay continuously up-to-date as materials become title hierarchy, all without starting a new search or available. going back to the main U.S. Code page. Public Law Text (1789-present) View text of all public laws dating back to 1789. Search public laws back to 1999 (106th Congress) by Keywords, Bills, Sponsors, Cosponsors, Words in Act Name, Bill Enactment Date and Public Law/Statute Cites.

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10 Federal LEgislative Services

CQ Archives CQ SenateWatch Historical Research. Dates Back (2011-present) to 1983. Searchable Content. Daily Updates. Factual Breakdowns. Delivers historical perspective on legislation Forward Looking. with information dating back to the 98th SenateWatch delivers legislative news and in- Congress (1983). depth schedule information from the Senate floor. Searchable with alerts, it gives you what you want Contains information from Bill Track, Floor Votes, in real-time. Committee Reports and news stories and more. From the industry’s best editorial team, Federal Register SenateWatch features: Full text. Easy-to-search. • Daily Senate schedules and Senate floor action With more than 480,000 documents available, summaries. the Federal Register is the official daily • Daily updates on what’s happening in the Senate. publication for the rules, proposed rules and • Access to bills and amendments cited. notices of federal agencies, as well as executive • Note-taking and archiving capabilities. Advanced, orders and other presidential documents. All easy-to-use search options. Federal Register documents dating back to 1997 • Know what’s coming up in the Senate tomorrow— are published on CQ.com in full text and are today. searchable by keyword, date, agency name or item type. CQ Hot Docs (1995-present) CQ House Action Reports 225,000+ Government Documents. (1999-present) Extensive Archives. Custom Alerts. Every Bill on the House Floor. Updated daily, this service offers the most comprehensive collection of government Originally designed exclusively for use by the documents available including draft bill text and House of Representatives, House Action Reports agency documents, press releases, “Dear Colleague” delivers five distinct reports that are easily letters, OMB, CBO and GAO documents as well as searchable and alertable, ensuring you receive other hard-to-find government reports. Use our what you want in real-time. House Action Reports “Request a Document” feature to see if our staff can features: find recently released documents not already in our database. The database is searchable and alertable 1. Legislative Day lists all the amendments by keyword, bill number, member, committee, expected to be offered each day with a forward subcommittee, document type, issuing agency and looking projection of what’s going to happen more with an archive of content since the 104th tomorrow. Congress (1995). 2. Legislative Week summarizes and analyzes every bill scheduled for consideration in the coming week. CRS Reports (1977-present) 3. Fact Sheets analyze major legislation before Full Text. Searchable & Alertable. floor debate begins. With nearly 50,000 unique reports and every report 4. Floor Summaries highlight bill changes agreed since 1993, we are the most comprehensive source to on the House floor. for CRS reports. Published by the Congressional 5. Conference Summaries indicate changes made Research Service for members of Congress and to the bill in conference and are published their staff, our database is also full-text searchable shortly after the release of a conference report. and alertable. You can receive updated CRS Reports as they are released and even access noteworthy reports since the 95th Congress (1977).

11 Federal LEgislative Services

Budget Tracker is the authoritative source on the federal budget.

CQ Budget Tracker HealthBeat Budget and Appropriations. Expert Health Care Reporters. Daily Newsletter. Real-Time Updates. Comprehensive First Look. This leading web-based news and information Alerts Tailored To You. service tracks and analyzes the federal budget This key resource delivers expert reporting and and appropriations process. With this service, analysis on major health care issues facing Congress you receive in-depth news via an exclusive and government agencies. This service provides you email newsletter, expert analysis and real source with twice-daily email newsletters with a website documents outlining appropriation bills and that is updated throughout the day to keep you earmarks. apprised of bills, regulations, schedules, government documents and more that impact health care. CQ Floor Video (2003-present) Streaming Floor Debates. BNN Never Miss A Beat. Custom Alerts. Frontrunner When the member important to you speaks, it’s now Published each business day by 10:30 a.m., BNN easier to find and replay it. FloorV ideo provides Frontrunner offers a synopsis of the day’s top streaming and searchable gavel-to-gavel video political and policy news as reported by the nation’s coverage of House and Senate floor so you won’t miss leading newspapers, magazines, radio programs a detail. Archived back to the 108th Congress, Floor and television broadcasts. Video provides a searchable database of everything White House Bulletin that has happened on the House and Senate floors Published each business day between 1 and 3 p.m., since January 2003. Floor Video includes a Day View BNN White House Bulletin supplies a comprehensive feature that allows you to easily see an entire day on overview of national media coverage of the White the floor, who spoke, and which topics received the House and administration. most attention. In the Video Manager, you can watch the speech that matters most to you, and then e-mail a link to that streaming video. CQ LawTrack Impacts of legislation. Precise. Real-time. Floor Video Plus allows you to clip sections of With LawTrack, you’re tracking pending bills and House and Senate floor videos and then republish how they would impact current laws. Now, you streaming video of those speeches on their websites won’t have to pore through hundreds of pages of and in e-mail newsletters. (Available only for media text—LawTrack does it for you by linking the text of organizations and Capitol Hill) a bill to the section of the U.S. Code it would modify. You can even create custom e-mail alerts that give you an early warning when bills are introduced that might affect the laws you monitor. 12 13 TRanscripts & TEstimony services

Verbatim statements that are the most accurate, readable and searchable.

CQ Congressional Transcripts (1995-present) We deliver gavel-to-gavel coverage of committee and subcommittee hearings. These essential transcripts of hearings offer verbatim records of the Q&A between members and agency, private sector and interest group witnesses. This database is full-text searchable and alertable by keyword, bill number, member, committee, appropriation bills and more with an archive of since the 104th Congress (1995).

Newsmaker & Regulatory Transcripts (1995-present) Provides transcripts of speeches, press conferences, news events and agency events. Primary coverage focuses on the president, Congress and the federal agencies. Plus, you can tap into transcripts of interviews with key government officials who appear on prominent television talk shows. Regulatory Coverage Newsmaker Transcripts also gives you access to word-for-word regulatory coverage focusing on approximately 40 public policy meetings from the DOE, EPA, FERC, FCC, FDA, SEC, TSA, HHS and CFTC.

TranscriptsWire Committee Testimony Be the first to know. Access prepared witness statements as This exclusive database furnishes fast turnaround submitted to committees and subcommittees. transcripts for clients that need immediate access View the full document of all testimony to crucial events such as speeches, briefings, submitted or use the table of contents to jump press conferences, congressional hearings and directly to an individual witness statement. An interviews. See transcripts as they are being archive is available since the 104th Congress uploaded to our site segment by segment. (1995).

14 Members & Staff

The industry’s #1 tool for contacting and interacting with key staff in the House and Senate.

Member Profiles, Fact Files Knowlegis & District Descriptions Congressional Staff Database. (1995-present) Updated Daily. Communication In-Depth Member Bios. and Workflow Tools. Contracts & Grants. Allows you to access the most complete and accurate database of congressional, committee Companies by District. and leadership staffers including email Available from your computer or mobile device, addresses. Knowlegis allows you to: Member Profiles offers a searchable reference · Record and manage all your interactions with database for every member of Congress legislators and their staff, committees and including an archive of former members since the subcommittees via our custom notes feature. 104th Congress (1995). This database contains · Create custom lists of congressional and detailed information about staff, state and committee staffers based on chamber, party, districts, biographies, contact information, voting title, delegation, leadership and more. and electoral histories, committee assignments, · Send customized email communications legislative priorities, speeches, interest group leveraging your custom lists and track open ratings and positions on key issues/legislation. rates. Member profiles also include government · Receive timely alerts on congressional staff contract data, grant information and major changes, press releases, town hall meetings employers (public and private) organized by and news. district and state. · Collect and review voting trends on issues important to you, using reporting tools that deliver interactive legislative analysis.

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