Library Guides: U.S. Government : Legislative Branch: Committee Prints

Committee Prints

A committee print can contain anything relevant to the legislative and oversight functions of Congress. The print content varies widely from committee to committee, and over the course of time the function and format have been inconsistent. Examples of committee print content include:

research papers by committee staff, Congressional Research Service experts, or outside consultants
committee rules and calendars
compilations of laws
transcripts of markup sessions or other proceedings
legislative descriptions and analyses

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Use the left menu in Advanced Search to find Committee Prints (and Miscellaneous Publications) back to 1817.
Congressional provides access to the best web resources for congressional and legislative information. This includes services available to Penn State Users only, such as Congressional Universe (1789-to date) as well as other free services that provide similar or related information such as Thomas (1993-to date) and GPO Access (1993-to date). The Guided Tour provides a step-by-step approach to congressional and legislative information for users who have never done research of this type before. Updates:Continuous
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Use when researching Public Laws. Includes all publications related to the legislative histories of U.S. Public Laws.
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.

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Congressional Committee Prints
FInd House and Senate Committee Prints back to the 94th Congress [1975-1976].

Citation

Follow the pattern:

[Chamber abbreviation] Prt. [Congress number] - [Committee Print number]

H. Prt. 111-17 is the 17th House Committee Print published during the 111th Congress.

S. Prt. 114-20 is the 2oth Senate Committee Print published during the 114th Congress.

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Committee Prints

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