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Legislative Branch

  • Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe   
  • "Congressional Universe provides an index of congressional publications from 1970 to the present, Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970 , and testimony from congressional hearings. Bills can be tracked as they move through the House and Senate, the Congressional Record and Federal Register can be searched, and information about members and committees can be located."
  • Thomas
  • Thomas provides comprehensive legislative information from a variety of sources. The four major areas covered by THOMAS are legislation, public laws, the Congressional record, and committee information.
  • Legislative Branch Resources on GPO Access  
  • GPOAccess contains searchable databases of bills, laws, The Congressional Record and other legislative databases.
  • United States Congress
  • A subpage of Thomas devoted to Congress.
  • House of Representatives
  • Information about House events, hearings, roll calls, bills and resolutions currently being considered, and a link to a full text, searchable database of the U.S. Code.
  • Senate
  • "The Senate Home Page is used to present general information from U.S. Senate offices, as well as institutional information about the Senate, and does not offer full-text or abstract information about legislation at this time".
  • CQ Weekly & CQ Researcher   
  • "The CQ Weekly provides access to the full text of all Congressional Quarterly articles published since 1983. The CQ Researcher covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more."
  • U.S. Congressional Bibliographies from NCSU  
  • "The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies 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."