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for Current Bills:

Bills, Resolutions Search (Thomas)
full text from 1989 - current
summary and status information about bills 1973 - current

Congressional Bills : Main Page (GPO Access)
full text from 1993 - current

Bill Search (LexisNexis Congressional)
full text from 1989 - current

glossaries:

Congressional Bills : Glossary (GPO Access)

Glossary of Terms (LexisNexis Congressional)

Voting Records:

C-SPAN Congressional Vote Search [1996 - current]

Floor Vote Search [1991 - current] (CQ Weekly)

Floor Votes [1988 - current] (Lexis Nexis Congressional)

Roll Call Votes : House & Senate [1989 - current] (Thomas)

U.S. Congress Votes Database [1991 - current] (Washington Post)

Congressional Record: Floor Debates

Congressisonal Record (Thomas) 1989 - current

Congressional Record (GPO Access) 1994 - current

Congressional Record (LexisNexis Congressional) 1985 - current

Congressional Hearings:

Congressional Hearings (GPO Access) 1997 - current

Testimony from Congressional Hearings (LexisNexis Congressional) 1988 - current

Committee Prints:

Congressional Committee Prints (GPO Access) 1997 - current

Committee Prints (Lexis/Nexis Congressional) 1993 - current

Reports and Documents:

Congressional Documents & Congressional Reports (GPO Access) 1995 - current

Reports (1989 - current ) & Documents (1995 - current ) (Lexis/Nexis Congressionl)

Committees: [current]

U.S. House of Representatives : Committees

U.S. Senate : Committees

Legislative Process:

Enacting Public Policy: An Interactive Legislative Research Tool (Kathi Fountain, CSUChico)

Enactment of a Law
(Thomas : Senate)

How Our Laws Are Made (Thomas : House)

Tying It All Together: Learn about the Legislative Process (House of Representatives)

Legislation (Senate)

Legislative Process (Columbia University Libraries)

Public Policy Matrix (Univ. Michigan Documents Center)

Legislative Histories

Federal Legislative History (Duke University School of Law Library)

Federal Legislative History Research : A Practitioner's Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent (Law Librarians Society of Washington D.C.)

Legislative Histories (Lexis Nexis Congressional)

Legislative Histories : U. S. Congress (Univ. Michigan, Documents Center)

more Legislative History websites

Historical: [online]

Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873

American State Papers (1789-1838) [legislative and executive documents of Congress
Bills and Resolutions: 1823-1873) : [incomplete ]
Congressional Record (1873-1875) [floor debates on Congress]]

Annals of Congress (1789-1824)
Register of Debates (1824-1837)
Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Serial Set (1833-1917 (selected portions)) [House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports

In Meriam Library: [paper and micro-fiche]

Congressional Record:

micro-film: 1873 - 1982
micro-fiche: 1977 - 2002 (doc X. & X 1.1:)
paper: Congressional Record Indexes: 1873-1996 (doc X. & X 1.1:)

Digest of Public General Bills and Resolutions : doc LC 14.6:(Congress) - (Session) 1954 - 1990

Hearings & Committee Prints:

paper & micro-fiche : search Meriam Library catalog or Catalog of U.S. Government Publication or Melvyl or California State Library Catalog for call numbers

Reports & Documents:

paper & micro-fiche : search Meriam Library Catalog or Catalog of U.S. Government Publication or Melvyl or California State Library Catalog for call numbers

Serial Set : microcard :Serial Set no. 1 [1817] - Serial Set no. 10851 [1938]

CIS U.S. Serial Set Index 1789-1969 (index Z1223 Z9 C65)

American State Papers : doc folio 01 - 038

New American State Papers : doc Z 8.2:

 


 

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