Floor Statement Lexis-Nexis 30th Anniversary

FLOOR STATEMENT LEXIS-NEXIS 30th ANNIVERSARY

Mr. President, I rise today to recognize LexisNexis, an Ohio company celebrating a very important milestone. LexisNexis, the first commercial, full-text legal information service, is celebrating its 30th anniversary today. This company, headquartered in Dayton, provides a service that has become an indispensable information resource to a wide-range of professionals, not only in many of our congressional offices, but also in the legal, business, and academic arenas.

In an era when many professionals frequented the library looking for the necessary documents, LexisNexis introduced desktop terminals that allowed subscribers to call up a variety of documents from their desks, making LexisNexis the preferred search engine of countless professionals. Today, the LexisNexis continues to revolutionize legal research by providing its over 1.6 million subscribers with up-to-date information covering a variety of topics, from worldwide newspapers and magazines to tax and accounting information and legislative records. Currently, there are an astounding 2 billion documents available in the LexisNexis database, with 6.8 million documents added each week, providing its subscribers with a wealth of knowledge.

I commend LexisNexis on the success it has achieved over the past 30 years and wish the company, and all of its 13,000 employees worldwide, continued success in delivering high quality, invaluable resources and information.