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INTERNET AND ONLINE SOURCES OF U.S. LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY INFORMATION by Richard J. McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Board - Prepared for LLSDC's Legislative Source Book 2012 - Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C., Inc. - First published in 1991 and revised periodically

This article briefly describes and then sets out in a Federal News Service (fednews.com), now part of Readex, a division of NewsBank, has meticulously comparison table most all Internet and online sources The Dolan Company, provides verbatim transcripts of compiled a highly indexed digital edition of the U.S. for U.S. federal and state legislative and regulatory many Congressional hearings and all prepared Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994. information. It begins by describing subscription Committee testimonies as well as other products. StateNet, a subsidiary of LexisNexis, provides a sources and then follows with non-subscription ones. HeinOnline.org, a service of the William S. Hein & host of legislative and regulatory tracking services and CQ Roll Call, via its CQ Weekly has been reporting Co. has available digital libraries of the complete documents for the 50 states, the District of Columbia on Congress for over 65 years. In recent years Congressional Record, Federal Register, C.F.R., U.S. and the U.S. government. CQ.com, as well as GalleryWatch.com and Capitol Statutes at Large, as well as hundreds of legislative TheCapitol.Net offers Congressional related Advantage were purchased by Roll Call, which is a histories, and other materials. courses, publications and training opportunities. It subsidiary of the Economist Group, and their various Leadership Directories. publishes many govern- also provides a host of free statistical and other product lines were merged. CQ now has an unrivaled ment directories including the Congressional Yellow information related to Congress. collection of legislative tracking and reporting Book, Federal Yellow Book, and State Yellow Book. A variety of other companies offer federal and state services on both the federal and state level. As a package subscription all 14 directories are statutory and regulatory documents and research LexisNexis, owned by Reed Elsevier, is one of the available on the Internet or CD-ROM. products including FastCase, Loislaw, VersusLaw, largest legal and news services in the world and has LLMC.com (Law Library Microfom Consortium) is TheLaw.net, and the NationalLawLibrary (itislaw). substantial legislative and regulatory information on a non-profit cooperative of libraries with many legis- In addition there are a variety of companies that both the federal and state levels with a new topical tab lative microform collections; some of them online. provide 50 state legislative and regulatory monitoring that puts all this information in one accessible place. LobbyistsInfo provides multiple tools for finding and reporting services as well as advocacy assistance, Westlaw is a legal research service of Thomson lobbyists by issue, industry, organization, etc. including MultiState Associates, StateScape, Regscan, Reuters with a wealth of legislative and regulatory National Journal, known for publishing a weekly LISAusa.net, and Stateside Associates. information on the federal and state level, including policy and political magazine, also provides online over 20,000 legislative histories from the GAO. Congressional products like NJ Daily, Daybook, In describing non-subscription sources a good place Hotline, Almanac of American Politics, and more. to start is the Library of Congress (LoC), especially its Accelus and its Capitol Watch legislative database Paratext has created links in historical indices to legislative home page, THOMAS, which has bill status is also part of the Thomson-Reuters family (above). other web products (Readex Serial Set; Cong. Globe). information going back to 1973, as well as the text of BloombergLaw is the legal research and news arm Penny Hill Press provides free abstracts of most bills (from 1989), the Congressional Record; of Bloomberg L.P., and it also provides federal and Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports (from Committee reports (from 1995) and info on treaties, state laws, regulations, analysis, and tracking services. at least 1995 forward) and for a fee will send out appropriations, and Presidential nominations. Linked BNA, recently purchased by Bloomberg publishes selected PDF or paper copies of the full text. Its to THOMAS, LoC has also digitized early (pre-1876) more than 300 in depth news products that report, by products are also available through CQ Roll Call. Congressional documents in its website called A subject, on Congressional, agency, and other actions. ProQuest is a leading provider of research and Century of Lawmaking for A New Nation. DSCS or DataStream Content Solutions, owned by archival material through electronic and microfom FDsys, is the U.S. Government Printing Office’s the Dolan Company, has a host of legislative and resources including the recently purchased CIS next generation electronic documents platform. It regulatory products including a 50 state legislative Congressional product line from LexisNexis, which includes thousands of official legislative documents and regulatory impact monitoring service. provides abstracts and full text of the historical (laws, bills, reports, hearings, etc.) and regulatory Fednet.net makes available live or archival audio Congressional Record, as well as hearings, reports, documents (Federal Register, CFR, executive orders, and video coverage of all House and Senate floor CRS reports, and more. Proquest Legislative Insight etc.) in PDF, text, and other formats. debates and selected congressional hearings. provides thousands of legislative histories from 1929. The U.S. House of Representatives (House.gov) Findlaw.com/casecode/, a service of Thomson Rutgers Law Library (lawlibrary.rutgers.edu) has and the U.S. Senate (Senate.gov) each have their own Reuters (Westlaw) provides free (but somewhat dated) digitized thousands of U.S. Congressional documents Web sites with links to member, committee, and editions of the U.S. Code, CFR, & Federal Register. from 1970 to 1998 and made them freely available. leadership pages as well as other information such as GovSpeak lists U.S. government abbreviations and The Sunlight Foundation.com/resources sponsors scheduling information and roll call votes. Many of acronyms with a web link to the agency name. numerous projects and grantees that provide tools and the committee Web pages include the prepared GovTrack.us provides free text and tracking of Websites for greater political transparency. statements of witnesses in committee hearings as well Congressional bills, members, votes, committees and TheGreenPapers.com provides a wealth of facts as committee Webcast archives. other services. and tables on the Federal government, state govern- HathiTrust.org through partner libraries has a huge ments and politics, including tables on Congressional The American Presidency Project (presidency.ucsb quantity of cataloged digital books in the public sessions and Presidential administrations. .edu/) provides executive orders (from 1826), signing domain such as Congressional hearings. (docs not in The U.S. State Department has a great deal of statements (from 1929) and other documents. PDF; but fully accessible by page turning). Treaty Affairs information (state.gov/s/l/treaty/). BioGuide (http://bioguide.congress.gov). The Bio- Justia.com provides free access to a host of U.S. The U.S. Congress Votes Database, published by graphical Directory of the United States Congress, legal resources including U.S. Code, CFR, Federal the Washington Post, lets you browse every 1774 – Present has a search template for entering all Register, state codes, court cases, and more. congressional vote since 1991. past and present members. Also available in PDF and The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Voter Information Services (vis.org) provides hardback via the U.S. Government Printing Office. provides the U.S. Code, C.F.R, and many other advocacy group ratings on members of Congress C-Span.org provides free videos of recent and live publications in table of contents format with direct voting records. broadcasts of Congressional hearings and other events links to sections (http://www.law.cornell.edu/). The WhiteHouse.gov provides current Presidential and charges fees for its video archives (since 1987). Legistorm provides salary and financial disclosure executive orders, signing statements, policy positions, CapitolHearings.org, a service of C-Span offers data on members of Congress and their staff. OMB circulars, budget plans, and other materials. live audio feeds of Congressional hearings. The National Archives.gov holds the records of There are also free or nearly free news services like The Center on Congress at the University of Congress, and, through its Office of the Federal RollCall.com, WashingtonPost.com/Politics, The Hill Indiana promotes events, resources and surveys to Register, provides the Federal Register, presidential CNN.com/Politics/, C-Span.org, Stateline.org and assist the public in understanding Congress and documents (including disposition status and links to other news services that largely focus on politics. representative democracy. Executive Orders), and other information. Finally, LLSDC's Legislative Source Book Congress.org (sponsored by CQ Roll Call) OpenCongress.org presents Congressional bills, (LLSDC.org/sourcebook) where this publication is provides information on public policy issues and tips votes, members, issues, blogs and other material in housed, also provides current legislative activity news, on effective advocacy. terms of popularity, recent actions and other ways. Federal legislative history links, state links, tables, and The Congressional Institute (conginst.org) offers OpenCRS.com provides free access to thousands guides to the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, the members of Congress ways to serve constituents and (not always the most current version) of CRS reports Congressional Record, and other information. ways for constituents to better understand Congress written exclusively for Congress by the Congressional The comparison table that follows attempts to via conferences and online resources. Research Service of the Library of Congress. show all the subscription and non-subscription CongressLink.org, part of the Dirksen Congress- OpenSecrets.org, the Center for Responsive providers described above in eight different columns ional Center, provides a host of links to Congressional Politics, tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on and in some 90 categories of information. It is limited information, both government and non-government. elections and public policy. in the kinds of information it can convey. At a glance, CongressMerge.com, has database products for sale The Political Graveyard.com provides biographical however, it will reveal what kind of legislative and as well as free contact information regarding members information on past U.S. politicians. regulatory information is or is not available from each of Congress, districts, committees, schedules, and Project Vote Smart (vote-smart.org) provides can- provider, and the dates of coverage. Categories that more. didate votes, stands, & campaign finance information. are not preceded by the word "state" generally ContactingTheCongress.org provides easy tem- Regulations.gov has Fed Register data from 2006 concern only federal information. Sources may differ plates and information for contacting members of and permits users to post and view reg. comments. significantly in cost, comprehensiveness, accuracy, Congress. timeliness and efficiency of use. INTERNET AND ONLINE SOURCES OF U.S. LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY INFORMATION

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