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Adventures in the Legislative Biographical File
1/26/2026
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Card for Rep. George Costanza from the original Legislative Biographical File

Our Legislative Biographical File Database launched last year, and it involved a lot of work! In this week's blog post, our Technical Services Intern walks us through the ins-and-outs of the tasks required to make it as error-free as possible in this week's blog post.

Screenshots of a spreadsheet containing Legislative Biographical File data and the homepage for the new online version of the Legislative Biographical File. Also pictured is one of the cards from the original physical database.

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