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Description

THOMAS is a database of Congressional and legislative information including bills, the Congressional Record -proceedings and debates of Congress, Congressional reports, legislative histories, and public laws. Contains leads to most data published since 1989 are full text. Earlier resources are only cited.

Dates Covered

· Summaries and status of bills. (93rd Congress to date, 1973+).
· Full texts of bills. (101st Congress to date, 1989+).
· Congressional Record (101st Congress to date, 1989+).
· Congressional Record Index (104th Congress to date, 1995+).
· Roll Call Votes (101st Congress to date, 1989+).
· Committee Reports (104th Congress to date, 1995+).
· Public Laws (93rd - to date, 1973+). Thomas calls this data Public Laws, but they are actually bills. See Public and Private Laws on GPO Access to view laws.

Print Counterpart

Bills (US MicFiche Y 1.4/?, 96th-106th Congresses, 1979-2000)

Congressional Record and Congressional Record Index
      Lockwood Library documents collection ( US X 1.1: (cong.) / (sess.), Volumes prior to v.133 have call number X.(cong)/(sess), 1873+).

      GPO Access includes the Congressional Record online full-text since 1994.

Committee reports
     U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection includes online full-text reports published between 1817 and 1969.

     See a reference librarian to access reports in print format published since 1970.

     Microfiche copies of reports published since 1979 are in the ASL Media Center.

     GPO Access includes online full-text reports published since 1995.

Public Laws-See United States Statutes at Large. (Lockwood call number varies depending upon dates); Law Library under various titles at LAW Federal Core Collection US 002 A2)

Related Databases

· Congressional Universe.
· GPO Access

Access Notes

This database is freely available to the general public via the Internet.

Contact

Edward Herman