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Legislative Branch Resources
Legislative Histories and Background Information | Calendars | Journals | Congressional Record and Predecessors | Congressional Committees | Committee Prints, Hearings and Markups | Reports & Documents
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Call #: XJH: [Congress-Session] (up to 108th Congress, pt. 1)
- Call #: Y 4.F 49/20-2 (108th Congress, pt. 2 - 109th Congress, pt. 1)
- Call #: Y 4.R 86/1-11 (from 109th Congress, pt. 2 to present)
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Location: Seidman Gov Docs (1963-1978)
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Location: Zumberge Gov Docs Microform (1979-Present)
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From the Library of Congress
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The official record of the proceedings of the Senate.
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From the Library of Congress
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"From its inaugural session, in addition to its legislative journal, the Senate has maintained a separate record of its executive proceedings that relate to its functions of confirming presidential nominees and consenting to the making of treaties. The Senate Executive Journal was not made public until 1828, when the Senate decided to print and publish the proceedings for all the previous Congresses and thereafter to publish the journal for each session at its close."
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Senate Journal
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The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824)
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From the Library of Congress
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"The Register of Debates is a record of the congressional debates of the 18th Congress, 2nd Session through the 25th Congress, 1st Session (1824-37). . . The Register of Debates is not a verbatim account of the proceedings, but rather a summary of the "leading debates and incidents" of the period. It was published contemporaneously with the proceedings by a commercial printer, Gales and Seaton."
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Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837)
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From the Library of Congress
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"The Globe, as it is usually called, contains the congressional debates of the 23rd through 42nd Congresses (1833-73). . . The first five volumes of the Globe (23rd Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 1st Session, 1833-37) overlap with the Register of Debates. Initially the Globe contained a "condensed report" or abstract rather than a verbatim report of the debates and proceedings. With the 32nd Congress (1851), however, the Globe began to provide something approaching verbatim transcription."
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Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
- Congressional Record (1873-1875)
- From the Library of Congress
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Congressional Record (1944-Present)
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From GPO Access
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The Congressional Record, while not the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, provides a fuller record than the House and Senate Journals. It is published daily when Congress is in session.
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- From GPO Access
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"The Congressional Record Index (CRI) is an index of the daily issues of the Congressional Record. In print, it is published biweekly by the Joint Committee on Printing when Congress is in session. However, the online CRI databases are cumulative from the beginning of each congressional session. The current year's database is updated daily, usually the day after publication of the Congressional Record."
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"The CRI consists of two parts: the index proper, which lists individuals, organizations, and topics mentioned in the Congressional Record, and the History of Bills, which lists legislative actions reported in the Congressional Record. The History of Bills is maintained as a separate database on GPO Access."
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From Thomas
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Search for bills by keyword, bill, amendment, or public law number, sponsor/co-sponsor, committee, stage in legislative process, subject term, date of introduction, or type of legislation.
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Searches provide detailed information on the status of the bill.
- U.S. Congressional Bibliographies (1983-Present)
- From North Carolina State University
- Lists hearings, prints, and publications printed by the Senate since 1983. Includes printed and unprinted hearings and meetings.
- Lists House committee meetings since 1985.
- Information is compiled from the Congressional Record Daily Digests and the U.S. Senate Library.
- Committee Prints (1997-Present)
- From GPO Access
- "Congressional committee prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. They are an excellent resource for statistical and historical information, and for legislative analysis."
- Committee Hearings (1995-Present)
- From GPO Access
- Not all congressional hearings are available on GPO Access. Individual committees decide whether its hearings will be made available on GPO Access. Those hearings made available, generally show up two months to two years after the hearing took place.
- Committee Hearings Transcripts (1995-Present)
- From LexisNexis Academic - Please note that because this is a subscription database, it is available only to GVSU students, faculty and staff.
- To search for hearings after entering the database:
- Under the Search tab, click on News
- From the Sources drop-down box, select Transcripts
- Uncheck All Transcripts and check FDCH News Service Capitol Report
- Enter the terms you wish to search for (to further limit your search to only committee hearings you can add the search term "committee hearing" to your search string)
- Congressional Hearings on the Web
- From the U-M Documents Center
- Provides links to hearings on committee sites, as well as links to testimony by agencies and lobby groups.
- Unpublished Committee Hearings
- From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
- Provides links to different sites that have hearings transcripts, publications, and more.
- Committee Markups
- From LexisNexis Academic - Please note that because this is a subscription database, it is available only to GVSU students, faculty and staff.
- To search for mark-ups after entering the database:
- Under the Search tab, click on News
- From the Sources drop-down box, select Transcripts
- Uncheck All Transcripts and check FDCH News Service Capitol Report
- Enter the terms you wish to search for (to further limit your search to only mark-ups you can add the search term "mark up" to your search string)
- Committee Reports (1995-Present)
- From GPO Access
- "Congressional reports originate from congressional committees and deal with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. There are two types of reports House and Senate Reports and Senate Executive Reports."
- Committee Reports (1995-Present)
- Committee Documents (1995-Present)
- From GPO Access
- "Congressional documents originate from congressional committees and cover a wide variety of topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations made for Congress, and annual reports of non-governmental organizations. There are three types of documents: House and Senate Documents; Senate Executive Documents; and Senate Treaty Documents."
- Reports, Prints, and Documents at the GVSU Libraries
- Some committee reports, prints, and documents at GVSU can be found by using the online catalog. You can search for these items by their title or by keyword. GVSU also has many historic Congressional documents that are part of the American State Papers and the Serial Set, which cannot be found in the catalog. For more information on how to find these items, see Finding Historic Government Publications.
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