LibGuides: Government Information: Legislative

Legislative Information

Congressional publications include hearings, reports and documents, bills and resolutions, roll call votes, and laws. Use Search@UW to locate print congressional materials in our collection and for links to many online legislative publications. Use Location facet to limit your results to government publications.

Congress.gov
Provides free public access to the text of bills (1989-present); bill summary and status information including legislative histories (1973-present); the Congressional Record (1873-present); Presidential nominations (1987-present); treaties (1967-present); committee reports (1995-present); public laws (1973-present); and roll call votes (1989-present).

Legislative Insight This link opens in a new window
A compilation of the publications generated during congressional lawmaking including the full text of the public law, all versions of related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints, presidential signing statements, and other related information.
Congressional Publications including the Serial Set and Hearings This link opens in a new window
Collection of Congressional publications from the late 18th century to the present, including American State Papers, the Serial Set, the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, US Code, the Congressional Record and Congressional Hearings from 1824-present.

GovInfo
Provides free public access to full text of Congressional bills (1993-present); calendars (1995-present); committee prints (1997-present); directories (1995-present); documents (1995-present); hearings (1997-present); Congressional Record (1994 to present); reports (1995-present); history of bills (1983-present); House rules and manuals (1995-present); Senate manual (1995-2008); the Journal of the House (1992-1999); and Statutes at Large (1951-1980 and 2003-2007).
U.S. Code (1994-present)
U.S. Statutes at Large (2003-2007)
Earlier volumes (1951-2002)
Public & Private Laws (SLIP Laws 1995-present)

General Information

General information about Congress and links to the agencies that support the work of the Congress.