U.S. Congressional Documents

After a four-year break from touring, on November 1, 2022, Taylor Swift announced that she would again be hitting the road in her much-anticipated Eras Tour. Tickets would be sold via Ticketmaster, with special presales. The entire sale was, in short, a disaster on a scale similar to the Three Mile Island meltdown. This isn’t the first time Ticketmaster has found itself in hot water. Using HeinOnline, let’s explore past Ticketmaster controversies to potentially gain insight into the current situation.

President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act[1] into law on Tuesday, December 13 in order to protect the recognition of same-sex marriage. But what exactly does the act entail, and what does it mean—and not mean—for Americans? Check out our overview of this important piece of legislation with the help of resources from HeinOnline.

The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol held its final meeting last month on Monday, December 19 and released their final report three days later, on December 22. The report, which is the culmination of an 18-month investigation and over 1,000 interviews, is now available in HeinOnline’s U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library and U.S. Congressional Documents database.

On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. You’ve probably heard something about it, especially as this legislation has been a long time coming—ever since Biden took office. Let’s take a look at what this bill includes, using resources from HeinOnline.

It’s a word we hear in the news all the time: the filibuster. Whether it’s politicians calling for an end to the filibuster, worrying about an impending filibuster, or praising the merits of the filibuster, the filibuster is both a loved and feared word depending on who you ask.

Did you take a vacation for spring break? Perhaps you and your family booked a cruise and sailed to warmer waters, sandy beaches, and exciting shore excursions. Hopefully on that cruise, you enjoyed a great buffet, amazing live entertainment, and swam in a pool with a giant curling water slide. Hopefully nothing happened on your vacation that forced you to swim in the murky legal waters that govern cruising when the vacation goes awry. When an assault, robbery, or even a murder happens aboard a cruise ship, different jurisdictions apply than those passengers may be familiar with while on land.

So much of our lives is controlled by time. Whether it is 8 a.m. or 8 p.m. determines whether we are getting ready for work or getting ready for bed. However, nothing quite illustrates the fact that time is a made-up construct than the history of daylight saving—in fact, for two decades of the 20th century, states were even allowed to make up their own daylight saving rules, often rendering time zones meaningless.

For this post in honor of Women’s History Month, let’s turn the clock back to America in 1916. World War I had torn Europe apart for the last three years, and the United States teetered on the edge of falling into the conflict. Women did not have the right to vote at the federal level. But this lack of a voice had not prevented Montana from electing Jeannette Rankin to the House of Representatives—the first woman elected to federal office.