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The “You’re Following” feed cuts through the noise and displays only the news, bills and information you’ve chosen to follow. asily add and remove what E you want to see—or don’t—from the stream. njoy the CQ content you’ve E come to rely on, such as ‘CQ Now’ and ‘Today at a Glance,’ in a beautiful, device-friendly display. Content is now organized by type for quick and easy access. Intuitive search proposes suggestions to help you find what you’re seeking. Streamlined search results go straight to the bill, member, committee or topic you need. 4 CQ INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS CQ News Timely Alerts. Archives since 1985. Provides comprehensive and nonpartisan news of congressional action. Delivers unparalleled coverage and analysis from the floor, committee markups, hearings and more with breaking news throughout the day. • CQ News & Schedules app – Be the first to know 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 chronicle of the capital’s most important events, direct from our newsroom and the hallways of Congress. • CQ Action Alerts are the first-word source for significant events in both chambers of Congress. 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. • Award-winning legislative and policy news, including delivery of CQ Morning Briefing to your inbox each morning, floor activity updates, breaking news alerts, and more. CQ on Defense Covering the armed services, homeland security and the intelligence agencies, CQ’s defense blog provides holistic insights into the ultimate “insider’s community” as it takes you from committees to legislation to nominations to policy debate. Easily track specific policy areas using subject codes and the Topics pages 5 CQ INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS With 24-7 real time alerts, CQ Roll Call’s comprehensive suite of in-depth insight and analysis will keep you informed and up to date, on any device, at any time. Schedules CQ Weekly Featuring Today at a Glance, a continually updated calendar and Congressional schedule with links to relevant news coverage, as well as documents and transcripts of note. CQ Weekly takes you deep inside the policymaking process and delivers a clear perspective on how legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how the process could affect your interests. Users can browse stories from the current issue by topic, via the online subject index and access related links alongside the text of articles including the ability to view profiles of members mentioned in the story, create a related bills chart, and access related documents. CQ Weekly is available in print, PDF, online and mobile devices with an archive of online content since the 98th Congress (1983). Real-Time Updates. Calendar Integration. • Detailed event listings including House and Senate committees, Federal Departments and Agencies, the White House and more. Integrated with your calendar and updated throughout the day. All the information you need on what’s happening in Washington. From your mobile device or desktop, access detailed and forward looking event listings, download events to your calendar and get regular updates on events from Congress, the White House, Federal Agencies, Federal Courts, policy groups and more. The service is searchable and alertable by keyword, bill number, member, committee, and more. Since 1945. Policy Oriented. Award-Winning. CQ Weekly Online Enhanced Digital Experience for CQ subscribers 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. 5 6 6 CQ INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS CQ ALERTS No matter what you track, CQ Alerts will keep you updated! Get customized alerts delivered directly to your inbox: CQ Bill Tracker CQ News Morning Headlines CQ News Afternoon Headlines CQ SenateWatch CQ Action Alerts by word or phrase, subject or bill CQ Schedules (House, Senate or by specific news event) HotDocs Amendment Text CRS Reports General Topics Unparalleled Customization Create your own news and information service from all of CQ’s content – tailored to your specific areas of interests. Select content from an array of information sources, including congressional news, schedules, member information, bill tracking and more. Customize your alerts based on bill numbers, keywords, members and committees. Choose your delivery options and the format (HTML or text) that best suits your needs. 7 TRANSCRIPTS & TESTIMONY SERVICES 7 Verbatim statements that are the most accurate, readable and searchable. GET IT TODAY. We offer same-day transcription turnaround times, sometimes within hours of the event. 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 Be the first to know. This exclusive database furnishes fast turnaround transcripts for clients that need immediate access to crucial events such as speeches, briefings, press conferences, congressional hearings and interviews. See transcripts as they are being uploaded to our site segment by segment. CQ Financial Transcripts Get verbatim transcripts covering the public statements, interviews and congressional testimony of key officials who are responsible for the government’s oversight of the financial markets and have unprecedented influence over the financial services industry—and their efforts to regulate it. Custom Transcripts If you need an event transcribed, such as for your internal events, we can do that. Ask us about our custom transcription services. Committee Testimony Access prepared witness statements as submitted to committees and subcommittees. View the full document of all testimony submitted or use the table of contents to jump directly to an individual witness statement. An archive is available since the 104th Congress (1995). 8 8 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICES Go deeper than the news headline. Start your day on the right track, and track accurately and comprehensively. Bill Text (1987-present) All bills. Fully searchable. It’s never been easier to pinpoint the language you need from a House or Senate bill. Keeps you up-to-date on newly introduced legislation and new bill language. This online tool is fully searchable, meaning you get exactly what you’re looking for in seconds. Type in your keywords and receive the language that’s relevant to your agenda, issues or interests. Plus, Bill Text also links to a PDF from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) website. Amendment Text Full-text Amendments. Alerts Tailored For You. Amendment Text provides you with a first-hand look at amendments to the bills you care about, including draft legislation, often before they’ve been acted on in committee or on the floor. This online solution unearths committee and floor amendments by bill number, date, and committee and sponsor information. You’ll always be the first to know when something happens. The industry’s best editorial team will make sure. And our groundbreaking technology allows you to customize alerts for your legislation so you can act quickly. Committee Reports (1989-present) Only service which features searchable and alertable reports and charts. With Committee Reports from CQ Roll Call, it’s never been easier to obtain the information you need on the congressional committees that affect your interests. Get the full text of every committee report, searchable by keyword and bill number, and organized by the full text, outline and sections with keywords; updated between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Committee Reports work in tandem with Committee Coverage. Committee Reports are searchable by: Congress number, Word or phrase, Bill numbers, Committees Chamber, Publication date, Report numbers and Date items added. CQ Committee Markup Coverage Hearings & Rosters Detailed Amendment Information. Vote Breakdowns. (1989-present) Committee Markup Coverage, Hearings and Rosters: Access coverage of key committee and subcommittee markups. Reports are typically delivered within 24 hours of the markup’s conclusion and include an easy-to-digest summary, links to important amendments and vote breakdowns. Users can also access listings of past committee hearings, including agendas and witness lists, and detailed committee rosters complete with jurisdiction overviews, subcommittee breakdowns and staff contact information. All content is searchable and alertable with an archive dating back to the 101st Congress (1989). Congressional Record (1987-present) Early AM updates. Easy-to-browse abstract. Every action that’s in play on Capitol Hill. The Congressional Record offers the proceedings and debates of the House and Senate. Updated daily by 9:00 a.m. when Congress is in session, this must-have legislative resource is now more robust than ever—thanks to its quick search tools. To save you time, Congressional Record delivers an easyto-browse abstract so you can hone in the details and procedures of major significance to you. Starting from the 100th Congress in 1987 to the present, the Congressional Record is searchable by: Bill number, keyword, member speeches, amendments and more. 9 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICES CQ BillTrack gives all the relevant information on any bill at any time. BillTrack & Custom Bill Reports (1986-present) Real-time Legislative Tracker. Every Action of Every Bill. Follow your bills in real-time as they travel through Congress from your desktop or mobile devices. It’s like a stock ticker, but for legislation—delivering lineitem updates on bills important to you when action occurs on hearings, markups, new amendments, added co-sponsors and much more. This service includes the ability to create custom bill reports to summarize the trajectory of the legislation most important to you and is searchable and alertable by: keyword, bill number, committee, subcommittee, sponsor, cosponsor, chamber, legislative stage, appropriations bill and more. An archive of content is available since the 99th Congress (1985). 9 10 10 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICES CQ Vote Watch makes it even easier to access and use our floor votes analysis. CQ Vote Watch No other media source can match the breadth and depth of CQ data. Since 1953, CQ has been tracking congressional floor voting patterns in our annual Vote Studies report. But now CQ readers no longer need to wait for the yearend reviews: With Vote Watch, CQ subscribers an get up-to-data on the same studies and do even more with it. Use pre-selected list of members to compare within groups like presidential candidates or major caucuses; create user-selected lists of members to compare; examine individual votes to see if they qualify for the Party Unity and Presidential Position studies; and review historical data back to 1999. CQ and Roll Call reporters and editors will regularly feature data from Vote Watch in their coverage of Congress, highlighting voting patterns for individual and groups of lawmakers. 11 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICES The CQ BillAnalysis dashboard gives you vital information on any bill in just a few clicks. CQ Floor Votes & Custom Vote Reports All Floor Votes Since 1983. Exclusive Vote Captions. Custom Vote Reports. Use CQ Floor Votes to see how every member voted on the House and Senate floors since the 102nd Congress (1991). We include an overview of each vote, the vote count and final outcome—including members who abstained. Votes appear within two hours of each vote. The database is searchable and alertable by keyword, bill number, member, subject, vote number and more. Additionally, with CQ Roll Call’s custom vote reports 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. CQ Bill Analysis & Bill Compare Expert Synopsis. Detailed Breakdowns. (1990-present) Receive expert summaries and analysis of major bills before Congress, including background information and prospects for passage. You can make up to six custom requests per year to have our staff analyze bills and access an archive of reports since the 104th Congress (1995). Use our unique bill compare tool to track the differences in language between the text of two bills. Exact language can be compared between two versions of the same bill, related bills (including those in the other chamber) or the same bill in past Congresses. 11 12 12 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICES CRS Bill Digest (1986-present) Understand every piece of legislation before Congress CQ SenateWatch (2011-present) Daily Updates. Factual Breakdowns. Forward Looking. Detailed synopses of legislation, with links to related news, analysis and source material, prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. Updated as material becomes available. SenateWatch delivers legislative news and indepth schedule information from the Senate floor. Searchable with alerts, it gives you what you want in real-time. CRS Bill Digest will help you to: Compile summaries of bills. Find links to news, analysis and source material related to your interests. Set up email alerts to stay continuously up-to-date as materials become available. From the industry’s best editorial team, SenateWatch features: 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. U.S. Code The U.S. Code is the official compilation of federal laws, organized by subject matter into 51 “Titles.” CQ.com provides the most up-to-date possible version of the U.S. Code, updating each section as new laws that modify it are enacted. Then we link it all up for you—wherever a section of the U.S. Code references a Public Law number, Statute citation or another U.S. Code section, we let you link directly to the text to see all of the relationships of legal language in context. You can also browse to the next and previous section in that title, or browse the title hierarchy, all without starting a new search or going back to the main U.S. Code page. CQ Archives Historical Research. Dates Back to 1983. Searchable Content. Delivers historical perspective on legislation with information dating back to the 98th Congress (1983). Contains information from Bill Track, Floor Votes, Committee Reports and news stories and more. Federal Register Full text. Easy-to-search. With more than 480,000 documents available, the Federal Register is the official daily publication for the rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. All Federal Register documents dating back to 1997 are published on CQ.com in full text and are searchable by keyword, date, agency name or item type. • Daily Senate schedules and Senate floor action summaries. • Daily updates on what’s happening in the Senate. • Access to bills and amendments cited. • Note-taking and archiving capabilities. Advanced, easy-to-use search options. • Know what’s coming up in the Senate tomorrow—today. CQ Hot Docs (1995-present) 225,000+ Government Documents. Extensive Archives. Custom Alerts. Updated daily, this service offers the most comprehensive collection of government documents available including draft bill text and agency documents, press releases, “Dear Colleague” letters, OMB, CBO and GAO documents as well as other hard-to-find government reports. Use our “Request a Document” feature to see if our staff can find recently released documents not already in our database. The database is searchable and alertable by keyword, bill number, member, committee, subcommittee, document type, issuing agency and more with an archive of content since the 104th Congress (1995). CRS Reports (1977-present) Full Text. Searchable & Alertable. With nearly 50,000 unique reports and every report since 1993, we are the most comprehensive source for CRS reports. Published by the Congressional Research Service for members of Congress and their staff, our database is also full-text searchable and alertable. You can receive updated CRS Reports as they are released and even access noteworthy reports since the 95th Congress (1977). 13 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICES CQ House Action Reports (1999-present) Every Bill on the House Floor. Originally designed exclusively for use by the House of Representatives, House Action Reports delivers five distinct reports that are easily searchable and alertable, ensuring you receive what you want in real-time. 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With this service, you receive in-depth news via an exclusive email newsletter, expert analysis and real source documents outlining appropriation bills and earmarks. This key resource delivers expert reporting and analysis on major health care issues facing Congress and government agencies. This service provides you with twice-daily email newsletters with a website that is updated throughout the day to keep you apprised of bills, regulations, schedules, government documents and more that impact health care. Budget and Appropriations. Daily Newsletter. Real-Time Updates. CQ Floor Video (2003-present) Streaming Floor Debates. Never Miss A Beat. Custom Alerts. When the member important to you speaks, it’s now easier to find and replay it. Floor Video provides streaming and searchable gavel-to-gavel video coverage of House and Senate floor so you won’t miss a detail. Archived back to the 108th Congress, Floor Video provides a searchable database of everything that has happened on the House and Senate floors since January 2003. Floor Video includes a Day View feature that allows you to easily see an entire day on the floor, who spoke, and which topics received the 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. Floor Video Plus allows you to clip sections of House and Senate floor videos and then republish streaming video of those speeches on their websites and in e-mail newsletters. (Available only for media organizations and Capitol Hill) Expert Health Care Reporters. Comprehensive First Look. Alerts Tailored To You. BNN Frontrunner Published each business day by 10:30 a.m., BNN Frontrunner offers a synopsis of the day’s top political and policy news as reported by the nation’s leading newspapers, magazines, radio programs and television broadcasts. White House Bulletin Published each business day between 1 and 3 p.m., BNN White House Bulletin supplies a comprehensive overview of national media coverage of the White House and administration. CQ LawTrack Impacts of legislation. Precise. Real-time. With LawTrack, you’re tracking pending bills and how they would impact current laws. Now, you won’t have to pore through hundreds of pages of text—LawTrack does it for you by linking the text of 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. 15 MEMBERS & STAFF 15 The industry’s #1 tool for contacting and interacting with key staff in the House and Senate. Member Profiles, Fact Files & District Descriptions (1995-present) In-Depth Member Bios. Contracts & Grants. Companies by District. 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