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This page includes information and links to a variety of guides and finding aids about Congress and Congressional resources.
They have been created by librarians, government agencies, universities, publishers, and organizations.
Congressional Research Service Reports
CRS Reports are not directly available to the public but they contain a wealth of information, analysis, and background on
a wide range of topics that Congress studies. Unfortunately, there is no single site that provides access to all CRS reports.
Below are links to the most useful sites that have mounted CRS reports. If you do not find the report you want on one site
try the others.
CRS Reports
The University of North Texas Libraries has created a new online archive of Congressional Research Service Reports. The site
provides integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available on the Web since 1990.
Congressional Research Service Search Engine
This is a Google Search Engine that searches only for Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports
Congressional Research Service Reports for the People
This site was Created by the Center for Democracy and Technology. Mounts many of the CRS reports and urges Congress to make
all CRS reports available to the citizens.
Selected Congressional Research Service
Selected CRS reports on intelligence, including reports on terrorism.
Selected Congressional Research Reports (CRS)
- Mounted by the Law Librarian's Society of Washington, D.C.
- The site includes some 36 alphabetically arranged CRS reports, most of which have never before been made available on the
Web. The site also links to most all other CRS Reports on the Internet as well as proposed current and past federal legislation
that requires CRS reports to be made available on the Internet. The bulk of the reports on the new site were optically scanned
into PDF documents from paper copies.
Pathfinders and Tools
Congressional Research Tutorials
- Developed by Karen Munroe and Jesse Silva and mounted bv UC Berkeley Library, these tutorials provide a quick introduction
to congressional research
- This site houses short tutorials on finding bills, hearings, and debates (including how to use the Congressional Record in
paper), and allows you to pause the tutorial at any point and practice in the live database below the tutorial (if there is
a database).
Congress Laws, and Regulations
- A guide to Congressional publications and how laws and regulations are generated.
- Created by Kathy Amen, Saint Mary's University.
CQ Press In Context
- Created by Congressional Quarterly.
- CQ Press in Context is a free Web site for information on pivotal events shaping today's world of politics.
Legislative History of Selected U.S. Laws in Electronic Format
- Created by Law Librarians Society of Washington D.C. (LLSDC)
- The selected laws are organized in alphabetical and public law number order and primarily come from (and are linked to) the
Department of Commerce.
Table of Congressional Publication Volumes and Presidential Issuances: 1789-1999
- Created by Rick McKinney for the LLSDC's Legislative Source Book
- A useful tool for finding dates of congressional sessions and corresponding volumes of publications such as the Statutes at Large and Congressional Serial Set
U.S. Congressional Bibliographies
- Compiled at NCSU Libraries.
- The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for
which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List
- Created by Jennifer McMullen at the College of Wooster.
- A web-based finding list correlating Serial Set volumes to SuDocs numbers of annual reports and other serials
Legislative Process Resources
- Created by Linda Rich, Reference Coordinator at BGSU.
- This guide explains the various documents that are produced during the legislative process and points to where they can be
found in BGSU Libraries and electronically (subscription & free)..
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