ABOUT The Potomac Collection

The Potomac Collection provides targeted tools to comb federal datasets and assess the impact of pending legislative and regulatory changes to existing law and statute. It is part of the Federal News Service suite of products, which provide transcript news coverage of national politics and elections to professionals through a variety of products, including Transcripts Database, Transcription Services, Media Monitoring, and Translations.

The Potomac Collection’s founding organization, Potomac Publishing Company, initially made a name in the CD-ROM market as a high quality provider of the U.S. Statutes at Large. Potomac was acquired by DataStream Content Solutions, LLC® (DSCS) in July of 2004 and in turn, DSCS was purchased by The Dolan Company in November of 2010. DSCS is a premier provider of information technology solutions to the Federal government and major corporations.

Our customers rely on us to provide hyperlinks in and between federal legislative, regulatory, and congressional data sets to highlight and enable quick navigation.

The Potomac Collection offers easy navigation in and between a complex, interrelated set of federal data that includes:

  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • Federal Register
  • Statutes at Large dating from 1789
  • Congressional bills and resolutions
  • Complete U.S. Code

Learn more about The Potomac Collection and Federal News Service and why we are trusted as an accurate and reliable resource. Read below or click here to subscribe

Subscription Services

The Potomac Collection

The Potomac Collection (www.potomacpublishing.com or www.fednews.com/potomac) is an extensively networked and complete online library of five federal data sets with built-in IMPACT tools that assess the impact of pending federal legislation and rules on existing laws and regulations.

With The Potomac Collection, you will receive:
Impact Tools

The Impact Tools are designed to navigate through the Potomac Collection. The Legislative Impact tool assesses the impact that pending federal legislation has on existing law. The Regulatory Impact tool assesses the impact of pending rules on federal regulations. Both of the tools can be used while navigating the site, or set up to automatically push alerts to the users through the Email Alerts.

Email Alerts

The Email Alerts are customizable, allowing users to proactively send emails showing the impact of new bills or rules on existing law or regulations in specified areas of interest.

The databases and services offered were finely tuned through extensive experience developing data and systems for various branches and departments of the US Government. Potomac continually looks toward development of new cutting edge products and services.

DSCS offers services through five divisions: Information Products & Services, Content Management Consulting, Composition & Publishing Services, Enhancement & Conversion Services, and Health Data & Informatics. For more information about DSCS please see www.dscs.com.

Federal News Service Product Suite:
Transcripts Database

The highly experienced staff of U.S. based transcriptionists provides fast and accurate transcripts for political events in Washington, DC. You’ll find the content that affects you within hours of the event or you can search more than 262,000 transcripts in our archives dating back to 1985. Choose from several targeted subscription packages so you can zero in on the transcripts you need, including Congressional Hearings, Election Coverage, Defense, Foreign Affairs, Healthcare, Newsmakers, Middle East, and more. There are also individual transcripts for sale in our online store. To see the transcript database, please click here.

Transcription Services On Demand

To maximize your own event, the array of Transcription Services gives you the ability to customize your written and/or audio transcripts, create searchable transcripts, link your transcripts to your video, and more. In addition, our professionals are able to record your event. To learn more, click here.

Media Monitoring Subscription and On Demand

Media Monitoring gives you the tools needed to measure the effectiveness of your media message or to track ongoing issues in the public debate. Our subscription and on demand tools allow you to gain access to real-time monitoring of print and internet mentions (including social media), export your keyword searches, create newsletters to distribute your content and more. To learn more, click here.

Translation Services

Accurately translate your documents and records in more than 60 languages with our ATA-certified network of highly experienced and trusted U.S. based translators. To learn more, click here.