CQ Press Enhances Congressional Staff Directory
From InfoToday: "Congressional Quarterly’s CQ Press Professional Division is enhancing its Congressional Staff Directory. The print/Web directory lists nearly 20,000 contacts along with in-depth biographies and committee assignments. However, now added to the free searchable Web access that all subscribers receive will be complete votes and bill information and complete Congressional Record information for each member of Congress. The product is designed to provide a thorough understanding of each member’s political record and behavior—not just their contact information.
Users can now search and analyze each member’s voting history or the results of any particular bill. Information can be searched by member, vote, date, and keyword. Links within the directory take you straight to each member’s specific history, or users can click on to the main votes site and do in-depth analysis of any vote, analyzing voting trends by party lines, state, and vote type. Congressional Record information for each member of Congress lets users find who said what and when on the House and Senate floors. Links in the directory take you to each member’s history. Users can search by keyword and date to quickly get specific comments on any topic addressed by Congress on the floor.
The new content is available in March with the latest release of the Congressional Staff Directory. Subscriptions last an entire year and include all results of the 2006 elections."