Washington Information Directory 2014-2015: The Definitive Source for Finding and Making Contacts at U.S. Government and Nongovernmental Organizations in Washington, D.C.

By Laura Notton, Catherine Farley, David C. Felts

For the reason that 1975, Washington details listing has been the basic source for finding info on governmental and nongovernmental companies in the
national capital sector. This relied on and ordinary listing is helping researchers locate the fitting touch on the correct association, no matter if their curiosity is consumer
product and foodstuff security, equivalent employment possibilities, finance and investments, housing, immigration, terrorism, or a wealth of alternative well timed themes. The listing permits the
user to find actual, whole, and present details quick and simply in a manner that unfastened net searches cannot.

In updating Washington info listing each year, we learn each one current association access to supply present addresses; cell, fax, TTY, and toll-free
numbers; electronic mail and net addresses; and key officials and outlines. Our workforce which obtains this data, led by way of Catherine Farley, calls each one association and speaks
with a member of its Washington place of work. In listing listings, we comprise contacts’ direct traces every time attainable (many firms don't post those numbers on
their websites in an try and channel all calls via an operator or answering service). while a federal division reorganizes, we investigate the hot divisions and directorates
and reorganize the publication, in addition to delivering up to date association charts. every year we upload new executive businesses and new nongovernmental enterprises, which contain nationwide enterprises and foreign companies with Washington workplaces. Entries
are prepared by way of subject, subtopic, and association variety. the result's an vital reference engine that makes discovering updated details effortless, even if you are
using the print version or navigating the net edition.

Readers will discover a finished directory of the contributors of the 113th Congress in addition to a convenient “Resources in Congress” field initially of every bankruptcy listing
relevant committees and subcommittees for that chapter’s subject, besides their site and make contact with quantity. Readers can also flip to the 1st appendix, which bargains a complete
listing of every 113th Congress committee for which details is offered and contains complete touch details, management, club, and jurisdictions.

Every new version of the Washington details listing brings whatever altogether new. The 2014–2015 version contains new federal firms similar to the safety Department’s security overall healthiness organisation (DHA). bobbing up from the 2013 security Authorization Act and tested on October 1, 2013, the DHA is designed to combine details know-how, clinical study, and budgeting to enhance and administer TRICARE and the
delivery of clinical, dental, and pharmacy companies supplied to carrier individuals, retirees, and their households. additionally new is the place of work of academic expertise less than the
Education division, which develops nationwide academic coverage and advocates for the transition from print-based to electronic studying. also, one in every of several
initiatives introduced by way of President Obama within the wake of the NSA scandal was once the production of the Civil Liberties and privateness place of work below the arm of the protection Dept. to
advise the NSA director and make sure that privateness and civil liberties protections are intrinsic in nationwide safeguard decision-making. between new nongovernmental enterprises is nonpartisan imagine tank The structure venture (TCP), which brings jointly coverage specialists and criminal practitioners around the ideological and political spectrum
to take on constitutional demanding situations. TCP lately made headlines with its document criticizing the U.S.’s anti-terrorism reaction and use of torture put up 11th of September. Readers will
also locate helpful the addition of electronic mail addresses for international embassies and chancery offices.

The totally up to date chapters of Washington info listing are supplemented through appendices comprising a advisor to the participants and committees of the 113th Congress;
a listing of presidency sites; an inventory of governorsand different kingdom officers; a listing of international diplomats and embassies, U.S. ambassadors, and country Department
country workplaces; and present info at the Freedom of knowledge Act and laws and up to date preferrred proceedings on the topic of privateness. Readers also will locate useful
the addition of electronic mail addresses for international embassies and chancery workplaces. additionally within the congressional delegation part, we now have integrated fb and Twitter information
in the members’ profiles anyplace on hand. Print readers may also seek and cross-search around the version in 3 ways: throughout the identify index, the association index, or
the topic index.

CQ Press seeks to proceed Washington info Directory’s popularity as a useful, complete, and authoritative reference of its sort. We welcome feedback
related to the book’s caliber and performance, in addition to feedback for destiny variations.