LexisNexis Congressional
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Description: Provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information, including: hearings; reports; prints; documents; bills; laws; regulations; and CIS Legislative Histories. Contains:
- Bill text and tracking
- Campaign contributors, campaign finance reports, and member financial disclosures
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Committee information and schedules
- Congressional member profiles - data by: Gender; Race; Party affiliation; State or territory represented;
Religion; Military service; Education attained and Alma mater
- Congressional Record and Rules of Congress
- Congressional testimony
- Federal Register
- House and Senate Reports
- House and Senate Documents
- Inside Washington political news (and Hot Topics) from:
- The Hill (1995 - present)
- Roll Call (1989 - present)
- The Washington Post (Section A) (1977 - present)
- Member Floor and Key Votes along with Bills sponsored
Includes mainly full-text starting in 1988 or 1989; most earlier sources have abstracts only.
Use the following links to search specific documents:
- Committee Prints (1830-present)
- Hearings (1824-present) (Limited full text)
- House & Senate Documents (1817-present)
- House & Senate Reports (1819-present)
- Legislative Histories (1969-present)
- Serial Set (1789-1969)
Legislative materials are updated daily while Congress is in session. Also see the Washington Post Votes database , which contains every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). The database lets you browse votes in a variety of ways -- both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress. For a "virtual ticker" of what's being debated / voted on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, see the current House Floor Proceedings . A Seven day archive is also available.
The Law Library of Congress contains approximately 75,000 volumes of printed Congressional Hearings, some of which have been digitized as part of the Law Library’s collaborative pilot project with Google, Inc. Also try Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet , part of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. LLSDC's Legislative Source Book .
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s) Government Documents Law
Military Science & National Security
Politics & Government
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Find GAO Reports ** http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/form.php?entry=1 **
Foreign Relations of the United States ** http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/ **
Guide to U.S. House and Senate Members ** http://www.memberguide.gpoaccess.gov/ **
Hinds' Precedents ** http://www.gpo.gov/congress/house/precedents/hinds/hinds.html **
THOMAS : Legislative Information ** http://thomas.loc.gov/ **
United States Congressional Bibliographies ** http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/congbibs/ **
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