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  • Most-Viewed Bills - Week of March 22, 2020
    H.R.6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act H.R.5717 - Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020 H.R.6074 - Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 S.3398 - EARN IT Act of 2020 H.Res.897 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be a direct emergency economic stimulus for […]

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  • New Report Published: Airport Noise Regulations March 27, 2020
    As airlines and airports are limiting operations across the globe, many airports are significantly less busy and noisy than usual. However, they are not completely quiet and there are reports that some commercial airplanes continue to fly, without passengers. In a recently-published report, Airport Noise Regulations, the Law Library of Congress looks at national strategies and rules for reducing noise from […]
    Elin Hofverberg
  • New Report Compares Regulation of Gender Equality in the Middle East and North Africa March 26, 2020
    A recent Law Library of Congress report, Legal Provisions on Gender Equality, examines the legal provisions governing inheritance rights, the legal age of marriage, and the transmittal of citizenship through the mother in 18 Middle Eastern and North African countries. The countries surveyed include Israel, Iran, and 16 Arab countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, […]
    Ruth Levush
  • Join Us for an “Orientation to Legal Research” Webinar on Federal Regulations March 24, 2020
    The following is coauthored by Anna Price, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Recently, the Law Library of Congress started a new webinar series on U.S. laws and legal resources. We welcome you to attend the next entry in this series, regarding tracing federal regulations, which will take place on Thursday, […]
    Barbara Bavis
  • Congress.gov Keeps You Up To Date With Email Alerts March 23, 2020
    Our latest Congress.gov release concerns a lot of work on back end infrastructure that is being built to support future enhancements, such as adding new collections and alerts to the site. Since this work concerns building support for future alerts, I thought this would be a good opportunity to review the many alerts that Congress.gov […]
    Robert Brammer
  • Coronavirus Resource Guide March 20, 2020
    Update: As promised, we are updating this guide today, March 27, 2020, with links to additional legislation (H.R.748), presidential actions, CRS reports, U.S. and state government resources and Law Library Global Legal Monitor Articles.  The updates have (new) at end of the entry so the added content is easy to identify. This is intended as a […]
    Margaret Wood
  • Historical Law Library Reports to be Published Online March 20, 2020
    The Law Library of Congress has digitized and published its first batch of historical legal reports as part of a multi-year effort to archive and share thousands of these reports with researchers and other members of the public. These first 250 digitized reports are now available through the Publications of the Law Library of Congress […]
    Stephen Mayeaux
  • FALQs: India’s Government Response to COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) March 19, 2020
    The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Tariq has previously contributed posts on Islamic Law in Pakistan – Global Legal Collection Highlights, the Law Library’s 2013 Panel Discussion on Islamic Law, Sedition Law in India, and FALQ posts on Proposals to Reform Pakistan’s […]
    Ruth Levush
  • FALQS: Qatar’s New Counterterrorism Law March 18, 2020
    The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress who covers Arabic-speaking countries. The Middle East region is a theater for the activities of multiple terrorist groups. Accordingly, countries in the region, especially Arab countries, have adopted various new laws in an effort to combat the problem. […]
    Kelly Buchanan
  • Join us for our first all virtual Herencia Transcribe-a-thon! March 17, 2020
    [Click here for the Spanish version of this post/Haz clic aquí para la versión en español.] On Thursday, March 19, 2020, starting at 8:00 a.m. EDT we will be LIVE in a completely virtual Transcribe-a-thon for our new crowdsourcing campaign, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. Participants can transcribe, review, and tag documents from our collection of Spanish Legal […]
    Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
  • Join Us for the “Orientation to Legal Research Webinar Series” on U.S. Federal Statutes March 13, 2020
    The following is a guest post by Anna Price, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, the Law Library of Congress recently rolled out a new webinar series on U.S. laws and legal resources. We welcome you to attend our upcoming webinar on U.S. […]
    Barbara Bavis