Web Access
The full text of more recent
bills and resolutions are on the GPO Access and THOMAS:
GPO Access
provides the full text of
all versions of bills and resolutions from the 103rd
Congress (1993-1994) to the current Congress. You can search
by bill number or by subject, or you can
browse a list of all bills and resolutions back to the
103rd Congress.
THOMAS
provides the full text of bills and resolutions from the 101st
Congress (1989-1990) to the current Congress. You can do
fielded searches to find a bill by bill number, word or
phrase, or date. You can also browse a sequential list of all
bills and resolutions back to the 101st Congress. Like GPO
Access, THOMAS provides the
different versions of a bill.
Document Rooms
The
Senate and House Document Rooms may be able to provide you
with a copy of a bill or resolution from the current
Congress only. Check with them for availability.
Libraries
Bills and resolutions may be
available in a federal depository library. The federal
depository library program is made up of over 1,300 libraries
that collect government documents and make them available to
the public for borrowing or reading. A
list of
depository libraries is available on GPO's Web site. Most
depository libraries are within a university or state library,
so sometimes borrowing privileges are restricted.
Congressional Record
Many Senate bills are printed
in the
Congressional Record, generally on the day they are
introduced. Quite often, a Senator gives a statement of
introduction, which is helpful in understanding the provisions
of the bill. The text of House measures are rarely printed,
and there are usually no statements of introduction.
