Latest Additions to GalleryWatch Services
New from GalleryWatch: The Capitol Crowd
GalleryWatch is pleased to announce the newest addition to its suite of tools, a direct link to the Capitol CrowdThe Capitol Crowd is an online network of people who work with state government. It includes all current lawmakers and hundreds of legislative and agency staff, lobbyists, consultants, media, and others with a connection to the Texas Capitol.
If you’re involved with state government, go to the Capitol Crowd and register your current contact information. You can also include information about previous government-related jobs, plus upload a photograph or a resume. Anytime your career changes, you simply log in and update your information. The entire website is searchable so you can find people by name, boss’ name, political party, policy areas of expertise, and even former bosses’ names.
The Capitol Crowd is a separate service from GalleryWatch. Registration is free. After a 5-day free trial, you’ll be asked to subscribe to continue to access the constantly-updated information. Yearly subscriptions cost $200 per year, less than $20 per month. To learn more about the Capitol Crowd, contact the site’s owner, Robyn Hadley, at robyn@capitolcrowd.com
New Issue of the Atlantic Briefing!
GalleryWatch and EUBriefing proudly announce the latest release of the Atlantic Briefing! This new release covers the topic of “The New U.S. Congress and Its Relations with the European Union”.
The Atlantic Briefing is designed for government officials, lobbyists, corporate executives, and NGOs in both North America and Europe. It is an innovative e-publication providing valuable insight into the diverse political and legislative views being expressed on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining EUBriefing's European political and legislative expertise and GalleryWatch.com's in-depth experience of Washington, each edition of the Atlantic Briefing focuses on major political issues currently under debate in both the US and EU, including topics like stem cell research, energy security, and, in this latest issue, the U.S. Congress vis-à-vis the European Union. Click here to view the new issue.
New from GalleryWatch: The Comment Center!
GalleryWatch is pleased to announce the newest addition to its suite of collaborative tools, the GalleryWatch Comment Center. The Comment Center allows you to initiate e-mail correspondence with other GW users at your organization and to then have the resulting e-mail conversation stored on the GW site for future reference. Better yet, comments may be affiliated with a bill and displayed on the popular GW Bill Information Pages. Thus, from one page you will be able to view not only all of GW’s unique bill information, but your own comment history on it, as well.
The Comment Center is available, free of charge, to GW users. To learn more about the Comment Center, contact your Account Manager or support@gallerywatch.com. Existing clients should feel free to go and take a look at their Comment Center by clicking here (will require a login and password if you are not logged onto GW already).
Midterm Election Information on GalleryWatch!
Interested in finding out who is running in a particular district, where that district is located within a state, or who the candidates are in a state? Check out the GalleryWatch 2006 Mid-Term Elections Table located under GW Content on your My GW Page or under Federal Government -> Elections -> Search. This table will be updated after the election with the vote tallies and final election results.
We have also loaded a new election search engine, which can be found at Federal Government -> Elections -> Search. This search allows you to filter by election year (2004, 2006), member, party, state, race, and election type (primary/general).
For more information, please contact info@gallerywatch.com.
Announcing GalleryWatch's New Site-Wide Search!
GalleryWatch has released our new global search, which enables you to search across most documents on the GW site (bills, CRS Reports, GW Hot Docs, Federal Register and more!) in one easy search!
The new search includes the following features:
• Searching for keywords and phrases across documents listed in one global search
• Ability to view up to 10 hits per document
• Searching across multiple years or Congresses
• Daily e-mail alerts (coming soon!)
To use this new search, simply click on the new Search tab to the left of the Congress tab on the dark blue menu bar that runs across the top of your screen.
We’d love to hear your feedback and/or questions on this new service, so please let us know your thoughts by contacting your Account Manager or support@gallerywatch.com.
New! GalleryWatch and EUBriefing proudly announce the release of the new Atlantic Briefing
Designed for government officials, lobbyists, corporate executives, and NGOs in both North America and Europe, this innovative quarterly e-publication provides valuable insight into the diverse political and legislative views being expressed on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining EUBriefing’s European political and legislative expertise and GalleryWatch.com’s in-depth experience of Washington, each edition of the Atlantic Briefing focuses on two major political issues currently under debate in both the US and EU, including topics like stem cell research, energy security, terrorism, and anti-trust legislation. .
The complimentary first issue of Atlantic Briefing focuses on Intellectual Property and Energy Policy (future issues will be available for a nominal subscription fee).
To view Atlantic Briefing, Volume I, Issue 1, click here.
To view the Press Release, please click here.
For further information please contact: Adam Nyman, CEO EUBriefing, adam.nyman@eubriefing.com or Arnie Thomas, GalleryWatch.com, arniet@gallerywatch.com
New! Following the Dubai ports management issue?
GalleryWatch has just made it easier for users tracking this issue by adding a Dubai Policy Brief to clients' My GalleryWatch (My GW) homepages. This Policy Brief is a compilation of key GW Hot Docs, press releases, letters and more on this very topical issue. Access to the documents listed is contingent on a client's subscription to GalleryWatch. In addition to this Brief, we have Policy Briefs and Legislative Narratives on a host of other issues as well.
GalleryWatch offers EOP Foundation's Understanding the United States Government's Regulatory Policy
Understanding the United States Government's Regulatory Policy is an overview of the Federal rulemaking process, published by the EOP Foundation. The book explains the statutory and administrative requirements that govern the regulatory process, discusses the partisan and institutional regulatory philosophies, and delineates the analytical techniques governing the conduct of Cost - Benefit and Risk analyses. A directory of key Federal Regulatory officials is also included.
The book provides key reference material for those involved in the regulatory process. For rule writers, it provides a detailed guide to the procedural and analytical requirements. For regulated entities, it describes the methods and tools available for influencing the outcomes of the regulatory process.
Copies of the book may be purchased through GalleryWatch for $34.99 each (including shipping).
TO ORDER THE BOOK, Click here. Or, to learn more, contact us by emailing info@gallerywatch.com or calling us at (202) 546-9770.
GalleryWatch and the National Journal team up to bring you in-depth information on energy issues in the 109th Congress! We are pleased to announce that GalleryWatch has developed a new GalleryWatch Energy Legislative Narrative, exclusively for the National Journal's The Policy Council. This unique time line will track the major energy debate developments in Congress starting Labor Day, 2005 with regular updates during February, March, and April 2006. The Narrative will include significant CRS Reports, letters, transcripts, draft documents and other key pieces of information related to energy.
The Policy Council at NationalJournal.com provides instant access to hundreds of position papers, expert contacts and other policy-related content from a diverse group of organizations. Check out the Policy Council's Energy Issue Brief, which hosts our new Legislative Narrative, a web cast and full transcript of the recent Energy Forum with Senator Domenici, and contact information for energy policy experts.
Legislative Narratives and Policy Briefs:The Legislative Narrative is a chronological compilation of all legislative materials from Congress on a specific issue. It may follow many bills at once and it provides access to all relevant primary source documents available on GalleryWatch.
A Policy Brief is an issue-oriented relational document connecting CRS Reports and GW Hot Docs on a given subject. It can also include links to other related materials, including member remarks, bill actions, etc.
'From the Chambers' and 'Upcoming Committee News': From the Chambers is a weekly column written by our staff recapping the significant actions that occur each week on the Floor of both chambers.
Upcoming Committee News is a weekly look ahead to what will be happening at the committee level.