Congressional Research Resources: Finding Aids

The following online resources assist in researching Congress and its legislation.

• Years of the Congresses  (US Senate)
  Very useful for finding numbers of Congress in association with years and session dates, from 1789 onward.
• Source Book  (Law Librarians' Society of Washington DC)
  Three of the publications found here are especially helpful:
  Federal Legislative History Research: a Practitioner's Guide.  A good outline of sources from 1789 to the present.
  Sessions of Congress with Corresponding Debate Record Volume Numbers.  A detailed listing of Congressional session dates from 1789 through 2003.
  Table of Congressional Publication Volumes and Presidential Issuances.  A good brief listing with dates, 1789-2003.
• US Congressional Bibliographies  (North Carolina State University)
  A compilation of Congressional committee meetings and the resulting publications, published and unpublished, for the Senate from 1983 to the present and the House from 1985 to the present.
• Google Books 
  Useful for finding citations to older Congressional publications, sometimes including full text.
• Louis  (Sunlight Foundation)
  Provides full text of Congressional publications from 2001 to the present.

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