LibGuides: NRES 770: Natural Resources Policy and the Legislative Process: Legislative Info

Legislative Information

Congressional publications include hearings, reports and documents, bills and resolutions, roll call votes, and laws.

Search the UWSP Library Catalog to locate print congressional materials in our collection and for links to many online publications. Use the Limit function to search only US Documents.

Many of these databases require that you search or browse by Congressional Session number. In order to locate the number of the Congressional Session for a particular year, see this table provided by the University of North Texas.

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

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Westlaw Campus Research is a collection of law, news, and business publications including federal and state U.S. cases, the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Register. The collection also contains company information and many news sources.
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

Citation Guide

Citing US Government Information - from Indiana University