Congressional Quarterly, Inc.(News in Brief ...)

Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (Washington, D.C.), a unit of Times Publishing Co. (St. Petersburg, FL), has acquired TrendTrack (Highland Park, IL), an online source for tracking legislative information in all 50 states, from company founder Ron Hogan and management. No terms of the deal were given. TrendTrack operates a search engine that connects clients with the status and text of every bill in every active legislature, usually around 200,000 bills. Clients can use the service to create customized issue reports that are automatically updated with the latest developments and information and can be integrated into websites. In addition, the service offers e-mail alerts that link directly to live data.

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