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Statistics Congressional Information
Guide to Government Publications Series
Legislative Process and Publications
The legislative process or legislative history of a bill/resolution
means tracing its steps from introduction to passage into law or
failure to pass with the end of a congress. The process includes
dates and types of documents resulting in each step. The process
includes the bill/resolution, the congressional hearing or testimony,
and the reports issued by the committee(s). If the legislation
passes both houses, it is presented to the president and if signed
becomes a law. The power of the President to refuse to approve
a bill or joint resolution and thus prevent its enactment into
law is the veto. The
President has ten days (excluding Sundays) to sign a bill passed
by Congress There are thousands of bills introduces for each congress but only
hundreds become law.
From the senate Legislative process; how a senate bill becomes a law
See
the
Senate’s legislative process.
The most precise information for tracing legislation is the bill number since
many bills on the same subject may be introduced in both the House and the
Senate. The Congressional record and its earlier titles includes a section
entitled History of bills and resolutions and indexes bills/resolutions by
subject.
The Senate
web page provides some information also.
The House of Representatives
web page also provides legislative history information. See Clerk
of the House for roll call votes as well as the Congressional record.
Bills and resolutions
1789-1931/32 (1st –72nd) mfilm n.s. 35 Green Media-Microtext
1933/34-1987/88 (73rd-100th) mfiche 1267 Green SSRC-fiche
1969/70 (91st ) to date http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp
9993/94 (103rd) to date http://www.gpoaccess.gov/bills/index.html
1989/90 (101st) to date http://thomas.loc.gov/
Committee hearings
Check Socrates for classification numbers (Y4 ) for print collection.
Hearings are also available on microfiche from earliest to 1956
(mfiche 34) and selectively GPO Access
Committee prints
Check Socrates for classification numbers (Y4 ) for print collection.
Prints are also available on microfiche from earliest to 1969
(mfiche 216); 1969 to date (mfiche 57) and selectively GPO Access
Committee reports
Y1.1/2: serial set fed-docs
Earliest through 1969 mfiche 1808 SSRC-fiche
1995/96 (104th) to date http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/index.html
1820 (16th) to date http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp
1989/90 (91st) to date http://thomas.loc.gov/
Congressional record: debates and proceedings on the floor of
the congress1789 to date. Earlier titles include Annals of congress,
Debates, and Congressional globe. Print collection shelved in fed-docs
stacks (X/congress/date)
1994 to date http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/index.html
1985/86 (99th) to date http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp
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June 17, 2008
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