People are starting to get excited!

BILL INTRODUCED!
Senators John Hoeven (R-ND) and Pat Leahy (D-VT) on Aug. 1, 2013, re-introduced the bill as S. 1458. 

We are honored to have such influential champions in the Senate: the top Republican on the appropriations subcommittee that funds the Legislative Branch, and the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Two additional Senate cosponsors have signed up and we anticipate others. 

The companion House bill is expected to be introduced after the August recess with an extensive bipartisan cast of cosponsors.  Stay tuned.  Meanwhile, Sign the National Petition if you have not already and Write to Congress urging your Senator or House Member to cosponsor!     

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Leading up to the bill's re-introduction, a number of publications and blogs have covered the idea of a Congressional Clerkship Program. You can read about us at:

The New York Times, The Opinion Pages:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/opinion/starting-out-the-lawyers-apprentice.html?ref=letters&_r=0

Georgetown Law Alumni Magazine Res Ipsa Loquitur
http://www.pageturnpro.com/Progress-Printing/37576-GL_SpringSummer2012/index.html#42

Point of Order Blog
http://www.pointoforder.com/2011/10/15/a-congressional-clerkship-program-or-how-larry-kramer-went-back-in-time-and-stole-my-idea/

Wall Street Journal Law Blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/05/06/congressional-clerks-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/

National Law Journal - Educators: Congress Needs Law Clerks
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202493152192&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt=NLJ.com-%20Daily%20Headlines&cn=20110506nlj&kw=Educators%3A%20Congress%20needs%20law%20clerks&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1

ABA Law Student Division - 11th Circuit Newsletter
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_students/about_us/circuits/11th_circuit.html

Stanford Law School News Blog
http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/newsfeed/2011/04/07/the-daniel-webster-congressional-clerkship-initiative/

Georgetown University Law Center News
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/web-stories/a-new-push-for-congressional.cfm

Work Studies Blog
http://workstudies.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/legislative-clerkship-conference-at-georgetown-law/

First One @ One First
http://f11f.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/legislative-tangent-day/

Georgetown Federalist Society Blog
http://georgetownfedsoc.blogspot.com/2011/03/congressional-clerkship-initiative.html