[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 17, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E935-E936]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW 
                LIBRARIES' LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY PROGRAM

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                           HON. MIKE QUIGLEY

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 17, 2019

  Mr. QUIGLEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today in celebration of the 30th 
anniversary of the American Association of Law Libraries' legislative 
advocacy program. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), 
representing more than 4,100 members, is the only national association 
dedicated to the legal information profession and its professionals. 
Founded in 1906 on the belief that everyone--lawyers, judges, students, 
and the public--needs timely access to relevant legal information to 
make sound legal arguments and wise legal decisions, AALL members are 
problem solvers of the highest order.
  In 1989, the AALL Executive Board appointed AALL members Robert L. 
Oakley of Georgetown University Law Library and Joanne Zich of American 
University Washington College of Law Library as the first Washington 
representatives for the Association. Since that time, AALL's advocacy 
efforts ranged from the creation and dissemination of government 
information to copyright to the privacy of library users. Its successes 
include ensuring permanent public access to official, authentic 
government information by advocating for the essential work of the 
Library of Congress, the Law Library of Congress, and the U.S. 
Government Publishing Office; contributing to the enactment of 
transparency laws including the E-Government Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-347) 
and updates to the Freedom Information Act; and, most recently, 
supporting my own legislation to provide public access to Congressional 
Research Service reports that resulted in language included in the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-141) directing the 
Congressional Research Service to make its nonconfidential reports 
available to the public on the internet.
  The AALL Executive Board and its members celebrated the 30th 
anniversary of the Association's legislative advocacy program by 
convening on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2019 for AALL Day on the Hill. 
AALL members met with their elected officials about the Association's 
legislative priorities that include greater access to government 
information, access to justice, government transparency, balanced 
copyright laws, and privacy for library users.
  I congratulate AALL on three decades of effective advocacy and wish 
them many more years of success.

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