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Congressional Information

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SU Users Congressional LexisNexis  some full text
Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research ; the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Statutes at Large ; Coverage
Available to everyone CIS Annual
Gov Docs Reference KF 49 .C62 ; index of Congressional publications, 1975-1999
Available to everyone U.S. Serial Set Index   (CIS)
Gov Docs Reference Z1223 Z9 C65 1975 ; index of Congressional publications, 1789-1969
Public GPO Access   (Government Printing Office)
gateway to U.S. Government information ; over 30 government databases
Available to everyone U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List (College of Wooster)
links agency copies of documents to Serial Set equivalents
Available to everyone U.S. Congressional Serial Set Inventories (Harvard)
SU Users Academic LexisNexis   some full text
news, business, legal, and reference information
SU Users Academic Search Premier   (EBSCO)   some full text
multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications in nearly every area of academic study
SU Users InfoTrac OneFile   (Thomson Gale)   some full text
periodical and news content as well as indexing from a variety of general and specialized journals; 5,156 full-text titles (more than 9,200 titles in all)
 
Access   Selected Reference Sources
Available to everyone Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
Available to everyone A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
U.S. Congressional documents and debates, 1774-1875
Available to everyone Code of Federal Regulations  
Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library (1988- ) 3rd floor
Available to everyone Congressional Record
Government Documents collection (1928- ) ; annual indexes (1928-1986) ; GPO Access (1994- ) ; earlier volumes available on microfilm in the Annex: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837), Congressional Globe (1833-1873), Congressional Record (1873-1928) and online
SU Users CQ Researcher   (Congressional Quarterly)   some full text
"hot" topics: social issues, environment, health, education, and science & technology
Available to everyone CQ Weekly  
Law Library - Periodicals 1976-present ; University Library - microfilm - Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report v. 48-v.56 (1990-1998) and CQ Weekly v.56-v.59 (1998-2001) ; essays on major legislation, voting records of individual congressmen, texts of presidential speeches and summation of Supreme court Decisions.
Available to everyone Digest of Public General Bills and Resolutions  
Gov Documents, LC 14.6: (1936-1990) ; identifies bill numbers, legislative histories, and summaries of bills.
Available to everyone Federal Register  
Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library microform
Available to everyone United States Code  
Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library 1st floor and online
Available to everyone United States Congressional Serial Set  
1st-57th Congresses [microfiche] (2nd floor); 58th-96th Congresses [some gaps] (Annex) ; 97th Congress - present (2nd floor) ; 92nd - 99th Congresses [microfiche] (Law Library)
Available to everyone United States Statutes at Large  
Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library 1st floor
 
Access   Selected Web Sites
Available to everyone Alabama Legislature
official web site
Available to everyone Finding Federal Legislative History
(Beeson Law Library)
Available to everyone USA.gov
U.S. government's official web portal
Available to everyone OpenCRS: Congressional Research Reports for the People
Congressional research reports online
Public Thomas, Legislative Information   (Library of Congress)   some full text
House & Senate bills, Congressional Record and Cumulative Index, hot legislation, and Historical Documents
Available to everyone U.S. House of Representatives
directory, schedules, committees, legislation
Available to everyone U.S. Senate
directory, committees, legislation
Available to everyone ZFacts: Congressional Research Service
Congressional research reports online
Available to everyone Congress.org
Public INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
virtual library of Internet resources relevant at the university level ; contains databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information
Public Librarians' Index to the Internet   (Library of California)
searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 10,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians
 
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U.S. Senators from Alabama
Jeff Sessions, Republican
Richard C. Shelby, Republican
U.S. Representatives from Alabama
1st DistrictJo Bonner, Republican
2nd DistrictTerry Everett, Republican
3rd DistrictMike Rogers, Republican
4th DistrictRobert B. Aderholt, Republican
5th DistrictRobert E. "Bud" Cramer, Democrat
6th DistrictSpencer Bachus, Republican
7th DistrictArtur Davis, Democrat
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