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Journalism 222 -- Government Assignment

Complete the assignment below. For each item, give both the answer to the question and the URL of the site where you found it. If more than one site provided the information, give just one. If you want to avoid typing the URL, you can click once in the "address" or "location" box at the top of your browser to highlight the URL. Hold the control key on your keyboard and hit the letter C. That will copy the URL into your computer's memory. Then click in the appropriate spot in your answer, hold the control key again and hit the letter V. That will paste the URL as your answer to the question.

E-mail your answers using this link: blick@latech.edu.

Note: This assignment is not limited to any one section of government resources. You probably will need to check a number of different categories of resources to answer all of the items below.

  1. Supply the following information about Louisiana's Senator Mary Landrieu.
    1. What is her e-mail address at her Washington office?
    2. What is her the telephone number of her Washington office?
  2. How do homicide rates in the Southern United States compare historically with rates in other regions of the country?
  3. How many people were in the seasonally adjusted labor force in the United States in March 1999?
  4. When did Congress enact the Federal Register Act?
  5. Who was the author of an ERIC document titled "Mapping the Territory: A Conceptual Model of Scholastic Journalism"?