• Database Directory - Federal Materials, Legislative History
• scope - to determine what database/file contains
• search IDEN database - for availability and coverage
• fields - use to retrieve specific documents or to narrow search

• Source Directory - Legislation and Politics, U.S. Congress
• i to determine what database/file contains
• search Source Directory - for availability and coverage
• segments - use to retrieve specific documents or to narrow search

A. Westlaw - Database Directory - Federal Materials, Legislative History

a. Bills - cong-billtxt* - bills from the current (106th) Congress

- cong-billtxt105* - bills from the 105th Congress

- us-billtrk - tracking status of bills from current (106th) Congress

- billtrk-old - back to 1991

*available on law school subscription only, for commercial subscription use cq-billtxt

b. Hearings - USTESTIMONY - oral and written testimony back to 1993

c. Committee reports - LH (selected reports from USCCAN - 1948-present plus all reports from 1990-, and pres signing statements in USCAAN)

d. House and Senate Debates - Congressional Record - CR - from 1985

e. Compiled sources - in Westlaw Directory, see Legislative History - Specific Acts

f. Public Laws - US-PL (current), US-PL-OLD (archive) back to 1989

B. Lexis - Source Directory - Legislation and Politics, U.S. Congress

a. Bills - bills - combined text of bills and bill tracking for current (106th) Congress

- text of bills from current (106th) Congress

- tracking status of bills from current (106th) Congress

- Bill Text and Bill Tracking - Historical (goes back to 101st cong.)

b. Committee Hearing Transcripts (selected) - Federal Document Clearing House Hearing Summaries - combines all Hearings sources on LEXIS

c. Committee Reports - from January 1990 (selected coverage of the 101st Congress)

d. House and Senate Docs - back to 104^th Congress (1995)

e. Congressional Record Current Congress

Congressional Record Historical- back to 99th Congress (1985)

f. Compiled sources - Legislation and Politics, U.S. Congress, Legislative Histories ; US - Congressional Information Service

g. Public Laws - Federal Legal-U.S. , USCS Materials - covers all Public Laws back to 100^th Cong., 2d sess.

Thomas - http://thomas.loc.gov/

GPO Access - http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dbsearch.html

Congressional Universe - http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/ (available by subscription, only)

Bill text and tracking - independent counsel

Hearings - section(hearing) and independent counsel and date is 1999

Reports - title(independent counsel)

Documents - independent counsel

Cong.Rec Current Congress - independent counsel

Legislative Histories - CIS PL(103-270), scroll down and look at links Go to i link