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Reports
House and Senate reports are the designated class of publications by which congressional committees report and make recommendations to the House or Senate as a whole. These reports concern the findings of committee hearings or the outcome of committee deliberations. They can contain:
- discussions of legislative intent
- a short history of a bill
- comparisons of current and proposed law text
- Congressional This link opens in a new windowUse the left menu in Advanced Search to find House and Senate Reports back to 1817.
- Legislative Insight (ProQuest)Use this ProQuest LibGuide to learn to effectively search Legislative Insight.
- Congressional ReportsFind House and Senate Committee Reports back to the 104th Congress [1995-1996].
- Congress.gov : Committee Reports of the U.S. CongressFind House and Senate Committee Reports back to the 104th Congress [1995-1996].
Citation
Follows the pattern:
[Chamber abbreviation] Rep. No. [congress number - report number] (year)
H.R. Rep. No. 103-403 (1994) is the citation to the 403rd House Report published during the 103rd Congress in 1994.
S. Rep. No. 103-300 (1994): Senate Report 300 of the 103rd Congress, published in 1994.
You may see the word at plus a number between the report number and year, for example:
S. Rep. No. 103-300 at 23 (1994)
shows that the reference is to page 23 of Senate Report 103-300.
Pennsylvania
- Legislative Budget and Finance CommitteeA Joint Committee of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee publishes reports on a variety of topics that come before the Pennsylvania House and Senate for legislative action.