CQ Acquires Congressional Green Sheets

Posted on January 14, 2005

Congressional Quarterly Inc. (CQ), a provider of news and analysis on Congress, politics and public policy, has announced the acquisition of Congressional Green Sheets, Inc. Congressional Green Sheets provides coverage of environmental, energy and natural resource issues on Capitol Hill.

Robert W. Merry, CQ president and publisher, said, "This acquisition expands CQ's reach into yet another important sector of policy making. Our aim is to provide the environmental community with the best available coverage that is customized to meet its particular information needs."

Merry added that CQ acquired Washington HealthBeat in mid-2004 and launched two niche publications -- CQ Homeland Security in late 2002 and CQ Budget Tracker in early 2004.

Subscribers will continue to receive the company's core products, including the Weekly Bulletin, Green Sheets Express and Newsroom. The current staff, including Linda Cartwright and John Dineen, who have owned and operated Congressional Green Sheets for the past 10 years, will continue with the enterprise under the CQ banner.

Congressional Green Sheets was founded as a private enterprise in 1995, but began 20 years earlier as a specialized publication of the Congressional Environmental and Energy Study Conference in the House of Representatives. It became a private company after the Republican takeover of the House. Today its readers include policy makers and opinion leaders within government, associations, lobbying organizations, law firms, corporations, interest groups, academia and the media.

CQ has more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers on Capitol Hill. CQ's product line includes: CQ Weekly, CQ Today, CQ.com, CQ Homeland Security, CQ Bill Briefs, Governing Magazine, and a line of books and directories under the CQ Press imprint. CQ is owned by the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla., publisher of the St. Petersburg Times and other publications.