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THOMAS
Legislative Information on the Internet

THOMAS is a guide to finding information on federal legislation on the world wide web. The Library of Congress brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995. Thomas can be found at http://thomas.loc.gov/.

Thomas currently offers the following databases:

  • House Floor This Week: Includes measures expected to be heard on the floor of the United States House of Representatives during the current week.
  • House Floor Now: Includes legislative information for the current day to be considered  by the United States House of Representatives.
  • Quick Search of Text of Bills: Searches text of legislation for the current Congress by word, phrase or bill number.
  • Bill Summary & Status:  Includes information about bills and amendments, including sponsor(s), short and popular titles, floor/executive actions and detailed legislative history.
  • Bill Text:  Includes the full text of all Government Printing Office (GPO)-supplied versions of bills.
  • Public Laws by Law Number:  Includes Bill Summary & Status records for each bill that becomes public law, listed by law number order and in bill number sequence (House Joint Resolutions, House Bills, Senate Joint Resolutions, Senate Bills).
  • House Roll Calls and Senate Roll Calls:  Includes roll call (recorded) votes from the House of Representatives and Roll call (yea-nay) votes from the Senate
  • Congressional Record:  Includes a list of all issues received and processed during the current two-year Congress, listed in reverse chronological order.
  • Congressional Record Text:  Includes a full text of the daily edition of the Congressional Record.
  • Congressional Record Index:  Includes an index to the daily edition of the Congressional Record, prepared by staff, under the leadership of the Joint Committee on Printing.
  • Days-in-Session Calendars:  Includes days the House and Senate met for each session covered.
  • Committee Reports:  Includes the full text of House and Senate committee reports (including conference reports and joint committee reports) printed by GPO.
  • Committee Home Pages:  Includes links to House and Senate Committee home pages residing on House and Senate servers. Pages typically include: committee jurisdiction, chair, full committee and subcommittee membership, committee schedules, press releases, witness lists, hearing transcripts, committee publications.
  • House Committees:  Includes links to House servers with information on 1) Schedules and Oversight Plans for each of the House committees. 2) Selected hearing transcripts from some of the House committees.
  • Senate Committees:  Includes links to Senate servers with information on Senate hearing schedules.

 (Adapted from Thomas website, http://thomas.loc.gov/, 2003)





 

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