Looking for a specific webinar? Choose from the list below:
- Welcome to CQ Federal
- Creating a Draft Bill Alerts for FY '21 Appropriations Bills
- Tracking COVID-19 with Alerts for Agencies
- Tracking COVID-19 with Alerts for Staffers
- Tracking Appropriations and the Congressional Budget with CQ Budget
- Welcome to CQ: Your Guide to CQ on the Hill
- Understanding your CQ Platform: Legislative Tracking
- Understanding Your CQ Platform: Tracking Bills Through Markup
- Understanding your CQ Platform: News & Schedules
- Understanding Your CQ Platform: Searching & Alerting
- Understanding Your CQ Platform: Reports
- Getting to Know New Members of Congress
- Preparing for 2021: Tracking Legislation
- Tracking Healthcare with CQ Health
- Navigating President Biden’s First 100 Days with CQ Federal
- First 100 Days Spotlight: The Presidential Budget
- Understanding Hot Docs: A Deep Dive into CQ's Trove of Documents
- Top 5 Alerts That All Policy Professionals Need To Know
Biweekly: Welcome to CQ Federal
Summary: In these biweekly webinars, we review all the most important steps to getting started with your CQ Federal platform, including how to log in, our most popular features and where to find help as you navigate your new platform.
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2/25/20: Creating a Draft Bill Alerts for FY '21 Appropriations Bills
Summary: On February 25th, we discussed where to find draft bill texts for Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations bills in CQ Federal; how to create email alerts to be notified of any updates around said bills, and what content can be included in those email alerts.
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Key Takeaways
- Setting an email alert takes seconds, and can help you be the first to know about draft bills that matter to you.
- CQ's unique draft bill setup allows you to track these bills before they're even introduced.
- Whether it up when the bill is introduced; anything that occurs before introduction, (news; markup, etc); news stories or committee hearings, you can be updated on it.
5/15/2020: Tracking COVID-19 with Alerts for Agencies
Summary: On May 15th, we discussed how to create email alerts around COVID-19 that will give you the inside scoop on all documents; bills; transcripts, votes and more that may impact your organization - before anyone else.
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Key Takeaways
- Leverage CQ's unique alerting functionality to set an email alert in seconds that, combined with the breadth of content and data available in CQ Federal, will help you get the inside scoop before anyone else.
- This is especially important in the current environment where Congressional initiatives are moving faster than ever.
- Whether it up when the bill is introduced; anything that occurs before introduction, (news; markup, etc); Sunday Show transcripts; Dear Colleague Letters, committee hearings and more, you can be updated on it.
5/26/2020: Tracking COVID-19 with Alerts for Staffers
Summary: On May 26th, we discussed how to create email alerts around COVID-19 that will give you the inside scoop on all documents; bills; transcripts, votes and more that may impact your team or office.
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Key Takeaways
- Leverage CQ's unique alerting functionality to set an email alert in seconds that, combined with the breadth of content and data available in CQ Federal, will help you get the inside scoop before anyone else.
- This is especially important in the current environment where Congressional initiatives are moving faster than ever.
- Whether it up when the bill is introduced; anything that occurs before introduction, (news; markup, etc); Sunday Show transcripts; Dear Colleague Letters, committee hearings and more, you can be updated on it.
6/15/2020: Tracking Appropriations and the Congressional Budget with CQ Budget
Summary
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- How to track the budget every step of the way: from pre-introduction to enacted
- Viewing Bill Topic pages to get a quick glance of appropriation bills
- Leveraging our inventory of unique documents to give you a holistic view
- Setting an alert to never missing an update on funding bills
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7/27/20: Welcome to CQ: Your Guide to CQ on the Hill
Summary
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- The expanded access to CQ Federal in the new CQ on the Hill package
- New features added to CQ's House-Wide platform, from bill tracking to news content, custom alerts and more
- The 3-step guide to getting started with CQ on the Hill
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8/6/20: Understanding your CQ Platform: Legislative Tracking
Summary
One of CQ Federal’s most important assets, beyond our proprietary news content, is the sources available to you for researching legislation. In this webinar, we discussed:
- The various Legislative Tracking tools available in CQ
- How to research bills
- How to track the bills that matter to you
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8/13/20: Understanding Your CQ Platform: Tracking Bills Through Markup
Summary
In this webinar, we reviewed:
-Custom CQ tools built for tracking hearing and markups
-Legislative tracking tools that help provide additional context
-How to set email alerts around committee coverage and bill tracking tools
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8/25/20: Understanding your CQ Platform: News & Schedules
Summary
In this webinar, we reviewed:
-The proprietary CQ News content included in your platform,
-Subscribing to curated newsletters from our Editorial team,
-Searching for and following news topics, articles and more,
-Setting email alerts on CQ News content
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9/10/20: Understanding Your CQ Platform: Sifting Through the Noise with Alerts
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CQ Federal provides some of the most powerful searching and alerting functionality to help you be sure you'll always receive the legislative updates you need and none of the noise you don't. Join us as we review:
-Conducting advanced searches
-Creating custom email alerts
-Editing those alerts
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9/24/20: Understanding Your CQ Platform: Reports
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We know that reporting to your team and/or stakeholders on legislation, members and votes you're following is one of the most important and time-consuming tasks public sector professionals handle - that's why CQ created customizable reporting functionality that helps you build and personalize those reports quickly and easily. In this webinar, we'll review:
- The myriad reports CQ offers
- How to create reports to compare bills, summarize key legislation and track voting histories
- How to customize those reports for your organization, team and stakeholders.
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11/9/20: Getting to Know New Members of Congress
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- New member information available immediately after elections are called;
- The New Member Guide to be released Mid-December;
- How to track all new information released regarding new members of Congress.
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12/1/20: Preparing for 2021: Tracking Legislation
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- The most important tools CQ offers for researching legislation;
- How to make the most of those tools to track bills you care about;
- How to set alerts for appropriations bills, including COVID stimulus.
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12/16/20: Tracking Healthcare with CQ Health
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- Where to find CQ Health content and how it can help you;
- The CQ Health newsletter and how to subscribe;
- All the key features of the CQ Health page.
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1/29/21: Navigating President Biden’s First 100 Days with CQ Federal
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- Tracking any future executive actions with Hot Docs,
- Following cabinet nominations through CQ Transcripts;
- Setting alerts for future COVID aid bills
- And more!
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2/18/21: First 100 Days Spotlight: The Presidential Budget
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- What CQ Federal sources can help you track information around the presidential budget, such as bill text, news stories, CBO Cost Estimates and more,
- How to run a search for key information as it pertains to the presidential budget,
- How to create a custom CQ Alert to track the release of the presidential budget.
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4/30/21: Understanding Hot Docs: A Deep Dive into CQ's Trove of Documents
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- What Hot Docs are,
- Where to find them,
- How to set custom alerts.
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6/30/21: Top 5 Alerts That All Policy Professionals Need To Know
In this webinar, we reviewed:
- A quick refresher on CQ Alerts, how they help and how to create them.
- Five key policy alerts we find help any CQ user regardless of their role or organization,
- How to create those five key alerts.