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Download the gummint, in gorious color ...... comments? possible link to Internet?
30 responses total.
Cuss-n-Discuss:
grex% lynx http://thomas.loc.gov
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (p1 of 4)
[Thomas Jefferson logo]
In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson,
a service of the U.S. Congress through its Library.
* Full Text of Legislation
Full text of all versions of House and Senate bills searchable
by keyword(s) or by bill number.
* 103rd Congress
* 104th Congress (End of January 1995)
* Full Text of the Congressional Record (Coming soon)
Full text of the daily account of proceedings on the House and
Senate Floors searchable by keyword(s).
* How Our Laws Are Made Edward F. Willett, Jr., House Law Revision
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (p2 of 4)
Counsel
An explanation of the lawmaking process from the origin of a
legislative proposal through its publication as a law.
* Resolution Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for
the 104th Congress
Text of the Resolution Adopting the Rules of the House of
Representatives for the 104th Congress
* House of Representatives Gopher
Directory information for House of Representatives members and
committees; House of Representatives yearly calendar, latest
daily committee hearing schedules, the current week's House
floor schedule; visitor information.
* C-SPAN Gopher
C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) provides
program schedules, press releases, 1994 Congressional election
results.
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* Future Enhancements to THOMAS will include adding the Library's
Bill Digest files, summaries and chronologies of legislation,
and will integrate them with the full text of bills, thus
creating a unique presentation of legislative information.
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THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (p4 of 4)
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Last update 1/4/95
TS,
It would be helpful to me, and perhaps others, if you posted a shorter
header and then put the long text as the first message. Thanks!
Pattie
You've seen http://www.whitehouse.gov/, right?
I think it's terribly difficult to get it much shorter than : :>Item 47: http://thomas.loc.gov download the gummint ! :>Entered by TS Taylor (tsty) on Thu, Jan 5, 1995 (17:37): :> :> Download the gummint, in gorious color ...... comments? :> :> possible link to Internet? :> :>3 responses total. :> :> :>#1 of 3: by TS Taylor (tsty) on Thu, Jan 5, 1995 (18:11): :> :> Cuss-n-Discuss: :> :> grex% lynx http://thomas.loc.gov But of course, I'm always open to suggestions.
Getting back to the topic, I think this is a great idea. I'm glad to see this happening.
Re #3: you can get into an enormous body of government information via http://www.whitehouse.gov/, but I haven't compared it to this lynx site. How are they the same, or different?
thomas, named after thomas jefferson, was introduced yesterday by speaker of the house gingrich. it's purpose is to make information available to the public which was previously only easily accessible to congressional lobbyists. they plan to keep the same type of information on thomas that the executive branch maintains on whitehouse.gov: the text of legislation, press releases, etc. one of michigan's representatives (i forget who) lead the team that set up thomas. so the real difference is thomas is "owned" by congress, and whitehouse.gov is "owned" by the president's staff.
Agora 47 linked to Internet 79.
I took a brief peek at this tonight and while I don't know how
comprehensive the service is, it sure beats hell out of trying to get
anything out of locis (the Library of Congress Information Service), which
uses an archaeic search engine and an interface that makes Ghenghiz Khan
look friendly. Enjoy.
Chris
And remember, folks, the correct form of that URL is
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Always remember to include the trailing slash, or you may
have trouble accessing the links on that page.
Your friendly neighborhood lynxadmin, Rob
hmm, that command i used was cut-n-pasted - what's the difference? I hit several of the links but didn't include them in #1. Was I lucky?
If you try accessing links on the same system as thomas.loc.gov, and you haven't included the trailing /, it may not be able to load them properly. Links to different sites will work fine.
I mosaiced to Thomas yesterday, and had a look at the HofR Gopher: surprised to learn that only 40 representatives are listed in the directory. What's surprising is that this service got launched in such an unfinished state, unlike any printed listing that would be produced. However, they don't want you to e-mail your reps until you send them a postcard first, to etablish that you *are* their constituent.
I think only 40 reps are listed because only 40 are using email or those are the only ones that want to accept email from their constituents.
Note that if you are using Netscape, the trailing slash is unnecessary and the URL http://thomas.loc.gov is sufficient.
Re #13: I think so too, but my point was that this exhibit a difference of attitude toward the public, for better or worse. They all had postal mail addresses simultaneously ;->
That's true, but mail preceded the House of Reps, email came after. I think the listing should put some pressure on those not listed to get listed.
lots of pressure, lots of .... "fun?" (heh-heh)
We're going to start seeing form e-mail responses ("I understand
your concern about.....but....."). These are going to be even
more bizarre than the form mail responses, which come weeks later
when you've forgotten what you wrote. And now, you'll just be able
to hit r . (It said, though, that responses *may* come by mail...)
ok, I can't seem to do it. What exactly do I type from the picospan promt? Thanks.
(drumroll)
Type this at picospan o.k.: !lynx http://thomas.loc.gov/
(symbols crash)
(I just tried it. It works.)
Your "symbols" sure did crash ;->
http:\\metaphor.grammar.mixed.oops\
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Any one else got any good URL's?!?!?!?!
**Tax Forms Online** -- The Treasury Department has finally put up a Web server. Although this may not be inherently exciting, at least the IRS is doing something useful with it: they've put tax information and Abode Acrobat (PDF) versions of recent federal tax forms online, including the infamous 1040s and their associated schedules. http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/irs/taxforms.html Forms for the years 1990 through 1994 are available (with a searchable index) and the PDF versions of these forms can be printed and used like normal tax forms (with some exceptions due to special color-coding, including the 1040EZ and the 1099- FAMILY). Typical forms consume a little over 100K in PDF format, and can be viewed and printed with the Acrobat Reader, also available from the Treasury Department site. http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/irs/acroread.html In addition, S-Cubed (a division of Maxwell Laboratories, Inc.) maintains the Taxing Times Web service, where they plan to make PostScript versions of tax forms available. Although the site is still under construction (and they don't yet have 1994 forms online) they do have tax forms from some states, plus links to public domain tax software, Canadian Tax forms in Excel format, and the entire U.S. tax code. Thanks to Chris Habig <chabig%f15.edw@mhs.elan.af.mil> for some of this information. [GD] http://www.scubed.com/tax/tax.html
What's PDF format, Steve?
What does URL stand for. I know what it means but I never knew the initials meaning
Universal Resource Locator
PDF is Adobe's cross-platform graphic format. It requires (free) Acrobat reader. I have never tried it, though.
Actually, the U is for "Uniform" though it used to be called "Universal" by some people. PDF is Portable Document Format, a kind of souped-up PostScript. Viewing software is free and easily available, but tools to create or edit PDF files cost fairly big bucks.
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