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- Congress.org
- Member directory lists committee assignments
- Committee directory lists subcommittee assignments
- Most updated source available
- Congressional Yellow
Book
- Most current directory of Congress available
- Brief biographies of Congressmen and great detail on legislative staff
assignments in Washington and in their respective districts
- Directories of committees and subcommittees with similar detail on
their legislative staffs
- Congressional YellowBook is searchable on its own or in conjunction
with the Federal, State, Municipal, Associations, and NonProfit sector
books
- Can search by location, industry, name, or personal characteristics
(job
title, degree, alma mater)
- Congressional Committees (GPO
Access)
- Separate Senate and House directories provide a grid with links to
the
- Committee web site
- Committee membership
- Hearings and reports published on the GPO web site
- Committee jurisdiction
- Committee rules
- House of
Representatives
- Senate
- Congressional Universe
(UMich
Only)
- Current committee and subcommittee membership
- Updated as needed
- Contacting
Congress (Juan Cabanela)
- Committee and subcommittee assignments provide links to the phone,
fax, district office, e-mail address, and biography of
individual members
- Nothing less than heroic
- Congressional Committee Assignments,
1995/96 (UMich) [Web]
- Committee and subcommittee assignments
- Also available for the 103rd Congress
- Congressional Yellow Book
[Library]
- Committee and subcommittee addresses, members, and staff
- Doc.Cen. JK 1083 .C75-Ref. with older issues in stacks
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Committee and subcommittee memberships and staff
- Searchable but not browsable
- Index retrieves section of book rather than specific information
- Updated once per year in September so may be outdated at the beginning of a new Congress
- Congressional Universe (U Mich Only)
- Current meetings, hearings, and markups appear under Members and Committees
- Historic calendars are searchable as Committee Prints since the 1980s under Congressional Publications
Current Calendars
- Types of Publications
- Hearings are testimony before committees
- Committee prints are research reports with
background information
- Reports are primarily recommendations by
committees on the passage of a bill
- Documents are communications from the Executive
Branch
- Calendars - see Committee Information
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [Web]
- Indexes committee publications: hearings (1970+), prints (1993+), and
reports (1989+)
- Published Hearings accessed through Congressional Publications
- Hearings indexed by subject, keyword, committee, date, and person testifying
- Advanced Search Strategies option under
keyword searching permits numerous proximity indicators
- w/p (words within paragraph); w/n
(words within a number; w/s (words within sentence)
- Example: china w/10 (world trade organization or most favored
nation)
- Additional protocols at bottom of keyword searching page
- Record provides summary of testimony, Superintendent of Documents Number for the Documents Center's paper copy, microfiche number for the Documents Center's microfiche, and a link to selected full text testimony since 1988
- Testimony provides the full text of selected testimony and prepared witness statements
- Indexed by committee, person testifying, date, and keyword
- More current than the Published Hearings
- Published Hearings have much more material
- See Congressional Universe Research
Guide or Congressional Universe
Quick Guide for further details
- Congressional Hearings via
GPO Access
- Selected hearings beginning 1995 also available free to the
public via the Government Printing Office
- Arranged by committee; no index
- Text and pdf formats
- Congressional Hearings on the
Web
- Lists government agencies and Congressional committees with selected
testimony on the web
- Internet Search Engines
- Political Information
- Search for hearings mounted by government web sites as well as those of individuals and interest groups
- Sample search: medicare and +testimony and +hearing
- Google's Uncle Sam
- Indexes text of government web sites
- Sample search: medicare and testimony and hearing
- You will retrieve at least some false drops, including the legislative status on THOMAS and hearings announcements
- Congressional
Universe (UMich
Only)
- Carries the full text of committee reports, 1989+
- Indexes the paper/microfiche copy of reports since 1970
- Both searches located under Congressional Publications
- Thomas
- Full text of committee reports since 1995
- Searchable by keyword, bill number, report number, and committee
- Reports segmented into easily viewable segments
- Links to the full text of the legislation in question and legislative
status
- Indexes
- Congressional Masterfile CD-ROM, 1789+
- Indexes hearings, committee prints, reports, and documents
- All publications available on microfiche in Documents Center
- Mirlyn
- Indexes hearings by keyword, 1789 to within five years of present
- Provides microfiche number for the Documents Center
- Full Text
- Congressional Universe
(UMich Only)
- Hearings and Committee Prints (Printed)
- Through 1972, check Documents Center catalog by committee and title
for Library of Congress call number; some call numbers may be in Buhr
- For 1973-80, check Documents Center catalog for
SUDOCS call number; all should be in Buhr
- For 1981-88, check Mirlyn under call number to see if available in
Buhr or microfiche should be used
- 1989+ should be in Documents Center arranged by SUDOCS number
- Reports and Documents (Printed)
- Last three years in Documents Center
- Older issues in Serial Set; 1-7914 in Buhr; 7915+ in stacks on 6
South/West End
- Use CIS Serial Set Index, 1789-1969 (Doc.Cen. Z 1223
.Z7 C764-Ref.) and Numerical Lists,
1970+ (Doc. Cen. Z 1223 .A5-Ref) to
identify bound volume numbers
- Description of
the Serial Set and its history
- American State Papers, 1789-1817 (J 33)
has the earliest reports
- Legislative Archives
(NARA)
- Guide to unpublished legislative and Congressional committee
documents beginning 1789
- Instructions for obtaining the material from the National
Archives
- EXPLANATION
- Usually include committee and subcommittee memberships, calendars
- May include status of legislation, press releases, extracts of testimony, and
other publications
- HOUSE
- JOINT
- SENATE
- Definitions
- Markups are committee meetings held after the hearings to
make changes in a bill and make recommendations to the floor about its passage
- Votes are taken among committee members to determine whether
the bill should be referred to the floor for consideration
- Reports are issued if the committee determines to recommend the bill
- Markup sessions are covered primarily by the press rather than official government reporters
- Academic
Universe
- Provides transcripts and summaries of markups
- Found under News/Transcripts
- The specific file is FDCH Political Transcripts but it is better to search all transcripts; include the word markup as a keyword
- Search will include some false drops; look for term MARKS UP in search results
- National
Journal Markup Reports (UMich Only)
- Full text of committee discussions and votes
- In Congressional Universe since September 1999
- From the main screen, go to Inside Washington/Committee
Markups
- Searchable by committee, date, bill number, and keyword
- Print sources: [Library]
- The text of markups often appears in the printed hearings of the
House Agriculture and Foreign Affairs/International Relations committees
- Votes occasionally appear in the House
and Senate Reports submitted on bills
- Guides for citing government documents
- Guides for citing electronic resources
 Political Process
- Legislation is a highly political process, despite this logical outline
- Public Policy Matrix is a chart summarizing the legislative process and sources for political information about the process
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