These resources provide excellent historical summaries of United States public policy issues discussed in Congress. Broader topics are discussed further in the almanac and multi-year resources listed below.
Great resource for summaries of laws and policies particularly for topic that have been rehashed over time.
Research papers written by the Library of Congress for the use of Congress. Provide objective, non-partisan analysis of public policy issues before the legislature. Full text PDF of reports.
Provides access to publications related to the legislative process.
Proquest Legislative Insight is a legislative history service offering full-text PDF versions of publications generated by the United States Congress during the legislative process from 1929 to the present. The publications include the full text of the Public Law, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications.