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identifies resources for various subject resources.
identifies resources for other states, e.g., Alabama-Wyoming.
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Members and Directories
Congressional Directory
"presents short biographies of each member of the Senate and House,
listed by state or district, and additional data, such as committee
memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or
secretaries, and room and telephone numbers. It also lists officials
of the courts, military establishments, and other Federal
departments and agencies, including D.C. government officials,
governors of states and territories, foreign diplomats, and members
of the press, radio, and television galleries."
Congressional Staff Directory
Reference JK 1012 .C65
- Staffs of the Officers of the Senate and House of Representatives
- Staffs & Committees of the Senators and Representatives
- Staffs of the Committees and Subcommittees
- Caucuses and Task Forces
- Staffs of Joint Committees
- Staffs of the Offices and Agencies of Congress
- Hill Organizations
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- State and District Information
- Member Records (101st Congress, 1989+)
- Bill Sponsored
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- Floor Statements
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- Personal Profiles
- Committees
- Roster (current Congress only)
- Committee Schedule
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"contains biographical profiles of former women Members of Congress,
links to information about current women Members, essays on the
institutional and national events that shaped successive generations
of Congresswomen, and images of each woman Member, including rare
photos."
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General Congressional Information
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Historical Materials of Congress
See the separate web page describing content.
- Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention
- Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789)
- Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-1789)
- Elliot's Debates (1787-1789)
- Farrand's Records (1787)
- Statutes & Documents
- Bills & Resolutions - selected sessions:
- House, 1799-1873
- Senate, 1819-1873
- Senate Joint Resolutions, 1824-1873
- Statutes at Large (1789-1875)
- American State Papers (1789-1838)
- U.S. Serial Set (selected Documents,Reports & Maps,
1833-1917)
- Journals of Congress
- House Journal (1789-1875)
- Senate Journal (1789-1875)
- Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875)
- Maclay's Journal (1789-1791)
- Debates of Congress
- Annals of Congress (1789-1824)
- Register of Debates (1824-1837)
- Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
- Congressional Record (first three volumes, 1873-1875)
"The Dirksen Congressional Center is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization in Pekin, Illinois,
that seeks to improve civic engagement by promoting a better
understanding of Congress and its leaders through archival,
research, and educational programs."
- The Civil Rights Documentation Project
- Editorial Cartoon Collection
- "Facing the Post-War World: Everett M. Dirksen Abroad, 1945"
- The 1960s: A Multi-Media View from Capitol Hill
- Understanding Congressional Decisions Through Vectors
- 14 Units to Learn How a Bill Becomes a Law
an unofficial list, compiled by staff at the Dallas Public Library,
"of all of the Congressional Gold Medals given over the period
between 25 March 1776 through to the present day," arranged by date,
with brief information about the recipients.
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Congressional Publications
Type of Publication
"enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees
since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and
those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional
Record's Daily Digest and bibliographic information
supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an
authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and
documents released by House and Senate committees."
- Congressional Publications
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- Rules of Congress
- House Rules
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- Jefferson's Manual
- Political News
- The Hill (1995+)
- Roll Call (1989+)
- The Washington Post, Section A (1977+)
- Hot Bills & Hot Topics
- "presents organized links to bills and news articles
related to issues of national importance. It features bills
under consideration or recently enacted, along with news
links grouped by topic area. LexisNexis editors update the
site monthly."
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Bills, Resolutions & Amendments
Indexes
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LexisNexis Congressional (15th Congress, 1817+)
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American Memory Collection (6th-42nd Congress,
1799-1873)
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Index by Reported Bill Numbers, U.S. Serial Set Index (15th-91st
Congress, 1817-1969)
- Shelved next to the microfiche in the U.S. Documents
Collection
- Search Bill Text
- Search Bill Summary, Status
- Search Multiple Congresses
- Advanced Bill Summary & Status Search
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1989+ Online (101st Congress+)
1799-1873
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Committee Reports and Documents
1789+ reports & documents are available in the U.S. Documents microfiche collections
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set microfiche (1789-1969)
- CIS microfiche (1969+)
- U.S. Documents Microfiche (97th Congress, 1981+)
- Senate Treaty Documents, Y1.1/4:
- U.S. Documents Microfiche (100th Congress, 1987+)
- Senate Documents, Y1.1/3:
- Senate Reports, Y1.1/5:
- Senate Executive Documents, Y1.1/6:
- House Documents, Y1.1/7:
- House Reports, Y1.1/8:
1789+
1906-1996
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set
- U.S. Documents Y 1.1/2: (selective print volumes,
59th-104th Congress)
1995+ Online (104th Congress+)
MBooks Online (Full Text) - The University of Michigan provides open access to some
full text publications through links in their library catalog, but access to many
of the items is restricted to faculty, staff, and students
at the University of Michigan.
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Committee Prints
NOTE: The UCF Library does not have the full text of any
committee prints published prior to 1969.
1969+ U.S. Documents - CIS Microfiche
MBooks Online (Full Text) - The University of Michigan provides open access to some
full text publications through links in their library catalog, but access to many
of the items is restricted to faculty, staff, and students
at the University of Michigan.
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Committee Hearings
Indexes
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LexisNexis Congressional (23rd Congress, 1833+)
- Almost all published hearings are available in the
UCF Library on microfiche.
- Some full-text published hearings are available in
LexisNexis Congressional, with a few from 1988 being the
earliest available online through the UCF Libraries'
subscription.
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CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings Index (23rd-64th
Congress, 1833-1969)
- Shelved next to the microfiche in the U.S. Documents
Collection
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CIS Index to Unpublished U.S. Senate Committee Hearings (18th-88th
Congress, 1823-1964)
- Shelved next to the microfiche in the U.S. Documents
Collection
- NOTE: The UCF Library does not have the full text of
the unpublished hearings.
1833-1969 Published Hearings (23rd-91st Congress)
U.S. Documents Microfiche - CIS Pre-1970 Congressional
Hearings
1969+ Published Hearings (91st Congress+)
U.S. Documents - CIS Microfiche
MBooks Online (Full Text) - The University of Michigan provides open access to some
full text publications through links in their library catalog, but access to many
of the items is restricted to faculty, staff, and students
at the University of Michigan.
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Congressional Debates
Indexes
- 1983+
- 1789-1964 - U.S. Documents X 1.1:
- 1965+ - Separate annual indexes
- See also various online versions below.
Congressional Record (43rd Congress, 1873+)
1873-1995 - U.S. Documents X 1.1:
1985+ Online (99th Congress, vol. 131+)
1989+ Online (101st Congress, vol. 135+)
1994+ Online (105th Congress, vol. 140+)
1977+ on Microfiche (95th Congress+)
NOTE: The alphanumeric filing order causes these
fiche to be arranged with the most recent fiche (1994+)
in the drawers before the older fiche (1977-1994)
- 1994+ - X1.1A.103/1:
- 1977-1987 - U.S. Documents X95/1: through X99/2:
- 1986-1994 - U.S. Documents X/A99/2: through
X/A103/1:
Congressional Globe (23rd-42nd Congress, 1833-1873)
Register of Debates (18th-25th Congress, 1824-1837)
Annals of Congress (1st-18th Congress, 1789-1824)
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Laws and Statutes
See also
Presidential Signing Statements.
provides step-by-step instructions for researching the history of a
public law.
"examines landmark pieces of legislation, explaining the historical
factors that led to the proposal of each act, looking at the
adoption process and assessing each act's impact on American life."
United States Code
"the codification by subject matter of the general and
permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects
into 50 titles."
See also:
U.S. Code Annotated (USCA)
Reference KF 62 .U6
U.S. Code Service (USCS)
Statutes at Large (Stat.) and Public Laws (P.L.)
"Every public and private law passed by Congress is published
in the Statutes at Large in order of the date it was enacted into
law. The laws are arranged by Public Law number and are cited by
volume and page number. Also included in the United States Statutes
at Large are concurrent resolutions, proclamations by the President,
proposed and ratified amendments to the Constitution, and
reorganization plans. Until 1948, treaties and international
agreements approved by the Senate were also published in the
Statutes at Large."
U.S. Code Congressional & Administrative News (USCCAN)
Reference KF 62 .A2 W4 (1966+)
- The full text of each Public Law is provided, arranged
sequentially by number.
- UCF holdings begin with P.L. 89-350 (1966).
- The first volumes in each year contain the actual text of
the Public Laws. The subsequent volumes in each year often
contain the full text of one or two of the significant committee
reports about each Public Law and sometimes include the text of
the Signing Statement from the President.
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CRS Reports - Congressional Research Service
"Reports for Congress, analyses or studies on specific issues of congressional legislative
interest, are often prepared in response to numerous congressional inquiries. Reports may take
many forms: policy analysis, economic studies, statistical reviews, legal analyses, historical
studies, chronologies, and two-page fact sheets." (2006 Annual Report)
A CRS Report is not made available to the public unless a member of Congress releases it.
The following resources provide access to released reports.
"aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports
that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990."
"provides citizens access to CRS Reports that are already in
the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access
to all CRS Reports."
provides a subject directory with abstracts of CRS Reports
Topical CRS Collections:
Bill proposed by Representative Christopher Shays (R-CT) in 2003
"To make available on the Internet, for purposes of access and retrieval by the public,
certain information available through the Congressional Research Service web site."
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Prepared by: Rich Gause,
Government Documents Librarian
URL of this page: http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/federalcongress.asp
Last updated October 13, 2011 9:26:09 AM
