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Comprehensive collection of historic and current congressional information, including bills & laws, hearings, CRS reports, committee prints, reports, and the Congressional Record. Congressional Documents (1789-Present), Congressional Hearings (1824-Present), Congressional Record (1873-1997), Congressional Research Reports (1916-2003), Serial Set (1789-Present), Serial Set Maps (1789-1969).
The CQ Magazine is a resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. It includes full text of articles published since 1983. Browse issues or search for articles using words, dates, subjects , etc.
Documents produced as a bill moves through the legislative process to become a law.
Full-text publication types associated with a legislative history include the Public Law text, all versions of enacted and related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, and committee hearings, reports, and documents. All of these publication types can be used in court to determine the intent of Congress in enacting legislation in cases where the statutory language is ambiguous.Other full-text publication types are included in our legislative histories to provide users with background material are committee prints, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications. Presidential signing statements are also included.
The U.S. Federal Legislative History Library consists of two main parts: The Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories Database and The Legislative History Title Collection.
This online Guide to the House and Senate Members of the 115TH Congress is intended to be a single point of access for Member information from several different official sources
Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Among the Congressional publications in GovInfo are:
•Congressional Bills
•Congressional Calendars
•Congressional Documents
•Congressional Hearings
•Congressional Record
•Congressional Reports
•Public and Private Laws
The official Web site of the U.S. Congress that contains legislative information. It is produced by the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate and other legislative branch sources. Contents include:
•Bills, Resolutions
•Roll Call Votes
•Activity in Congress (Provides a list of floor activity for the previous legislative day)
•House Committee live streams
•Congressional Record
•Schedules, Calendars
•Committee Information
•Presidential Nominations
•Treaties
Congress.gov also includes a Resources A to Z directory with links to Congressional information from official and non-official sources and a Legislative Process Glossary.
After 2017 most all CRS reports can be found at crsreports.congress.gov including those on Congress and its procedures (use the Search template and/or narrow by category).
A tool created by Civic Impulse, LLC helps ordinary citizens find and track bills in the U.S. Congress and understand their representatives’ legislative record. This is not a government Web site.
The National Archives is the official repository of the records of House and Senate committees. Particularly valuable are the online guides to the committee records of the House and Senate, which provide excellent summaries of the history and purpose of each congressional committee.
