PRESS, 1982-2013

Summary: Lautenberg's office collected news clippings to track information about a topic and to gauge the optics of the office in the community. The office retained both original clippings—either the whole page or the clipping by itself—and photocopies of articles. Source information was retained for some items, but the context is missing for other clippings.

The press series has been organized into five subseries based on the office's use of the materials.

FRL Mentions are collections of articles in which Lautenberg is named in the article. The primary purpose of these clippings was to gauge how often Lautenberg was being named and in what context.

News Clippings include clippings that were of interest to the office, usually in relation to legislation with which Lautenberg was involved, and may or may not mention Lautenberg by name. The primary purpose of these clippings was to follow the progression of a topic or issue.

News Summaries were collected by the office's legislative assistants to summarize key issues in the news to share with Lautenberg. .

Editorial Boards and Press Releases contain documents that the office used to express Lautenberg's position on a topic, to announce new initiatives, and to make other forms of public statements.