Congressional
Database Description
Note: Use of this resource is restricted to current University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff, and may be used for individual research purposes only. Any other use is prohibited.
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Description:
The world's most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Services. Includes access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, information about current members of Congress, and much more.
With Congressional, you can:
- Search an index of congressional publications from 1789 to the present
- Retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to the 1980s
- Find testimony from congressional hearings
- Track bills as they move through the House and Senate
- Search the Congressional Record and Federal Register
- Locate information about members and committees
- Search the National Journal
- Now includes the Congressional Research Digital Collection
Information Type:
- Citations? Yes
- Abstracts? Yes
- Full Text? Yes
Frequency of Updates:
- Daily
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