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Is Congress.Gov Being Acquired by FiscalNote.Com?

If so, does that mean FiscalNote is subject to FACA rules?

Mackenzie Andersen
2 min readJan 26, 2025

Since yesterday every time I try to access Congress.gov (Library of Congress), I get the message that I have been blocked

So I posted about it on Facebook and the next morning I saw this:

I didn’t post a link to FiscalNotes but there it was!

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So I looked up FiscalNote on whois. It has a mailing address located in Iceland

And I looked up Congress.gov on whois. All contact info is redacted for privacy.

For all it is worth Congres.gov uses Cloudfare which was also used by Musk to circumvent Brazil’s ban of X for some X users in Brazil

How Did Cloudflare Let Elon Musk’s X Dodge Brazil’s Ban?

Then I found this:

FiscalNote Announces Acquisition of Oxford Analytica

I looked up Oxford Analytica on Whois. Looks normal.

None of this leads to conclusions of any significance but it does beg the Question: Will we be hearing an

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Mackenzie Andersen
Mackenzie Andersen

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