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Published on: January 13, 2014

Congress.gov: How to Search for Federal Bills, Laws, the Congressional Record, and Committee Reports

01/13/2014 7:55 pm

NOTE: California Attorneys and Paralegals can earn one hour of self-study MCLE credits online after reading this article and completing this associated MCLE quiz. This article is about Congress.gov (http://beta.congress.gov/), which is the government’s most recent searchable database of federal legislative/congressional materials (other than the U.S. Code). Congress.gov includes public ...

Published on: January 2, 2013

How to Search Congressional Legislative Materials at Thomas and FDSys

01/02/2013 9:57 am

Searchable databases of legislative/congressional materials such as public laws, bills, resolutions, hearings, congressional reports, and committee reports can be found at two governmental sites: The Library of Congress’s Thomas site (http://thomas.loc.gov) and FDsys (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action). Legislative/congressional materials are valuable to researchers for the following reasons: To track ...