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Thomas & GPO Access for Legislative Information

GPO Access

The U.S. Government Printing Office provides free public access to electronic information products produced by the Federal Government.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/index.html

Thomas

The Library of Congress provides a comprehensive federal legislative information site.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html

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Table of Contents FINDING CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION USING… WHAT IS GPO ACCESS? FACTS ABOUT GPO ACCESS THE OBJECTIVES OF GPO ACCESS WHAT CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION IS IN GPO ACCESS? PPT Slide CONGRESSIONAL BILLS PUBLIC LAWS HISTORY OF BILLS CONGRESSIONAL RECORD CONGRESSIONAL RECORD INDEX CONGRESSIONAL CALENDARS CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY HOW DO I GET TO GPO ACCESS? WHO OR WHAT IS THOMAS? WHAT DATABASES ARE AVAILABLE IN THOMAS? PPT Slide House Floor This Week HOUSE FLOOR NOW QUICK SEARCH OF TEXT OF BILLS BILL SUMMARY & STATUS BILL TEXT MAJOR LEGISLATION PUBLIC LAWS BY LAW NUMBER VOTES: HOUSE AND SENATE ROLL CALL VOTES CONGRESSIONAL RECORD TEXT CONGRESSIONAL RECORD INDEX RESUMES OF CONGRESSIONAL ACTIVITY Committee Reports Committee Home Pages HOW DO I GET TO THOMAS?

Author: Barbara Costello (Stetson University, duPont-Ball Library)

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Prepared by:  Rich Gause, Government Documents Librarian from information provided by Barbara Costello (Stetson Univ)
URL of this page: http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/training/cflc/thomas.htm

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