Introducing the Congressional Timeline 1.0
Cindy
http://www.congressionaltimeline.org/ -- from The Dirksen
Congressional Center
Now at your fingertips . . .
* Major laws -- more than 200 examples -- passed by Congress from 1933
to the
present
* The partisan composition of each Congress, along with the
presidential
administration and the congressional leaders
* The session dates of each Congress
* Measures of legislative productivity, such as the number of bills
introduced
and passed
* Information about women and African-Americans serving in
Congress
* Examples of documents and audiovisual materials related to
legislation
* The ability to add information to the timeline by using the "wiki"
feature
Here’s how it works.
* Go to the CTL index page at http://www.congressionaltimeline.org/
* Select the 88th Congress from the drop-down menu on the right.
* Click the "expand" button under 1963 to see general information
about the
88th.
* To experience the multimedia potential for the site, click the
"collapse"
button for 1963 and the "expand" button for the Civil Rights Act of
1964 at
July 2, 1964.
* Check out the rotating cube! You will see additional content --
documents,
photos, even a video of the presidential signing ceremony.
* If you would like to contribute to the timeline, use the wiki
component --
just click on "wiki" on the rotating cube.
We know this first version of the Congressional Timeline will have
some bugs to
work out. If you have suggestions, please contact me at
fmac...@dirksencenter.org. We’ll do our best to respond and improve
the
timeline.
Come back often. We will add information to the timeline continuously.
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Frank Mackaman
The Dirksen Congressional Center
fmac...@dirksencenter.org