Public Health Reference: Finding Legislative Info

Multi-disciplinary database

Business information resource that also offers full-text news sources.

formerly known as Lexis-Nexis. News, business, legal, and medical news/journals provided primarily in full-text.

Multi-disciplinary database covering general and academic periodicals. Full-text available for many titles.

Provides access to research reports on a wide variety of public policy issues prepared by the Congressional Research Service for members of Congress.

Provides extensive coverage of the activities of both Houses of Congress, including Committees. Includes daily articles and reports analyzing Congressional activity, as well as member profiles, the text of bills, schedules and agendas, and more.

Contains the following resources: The Voting and Elections Collection, CQ Weekly, The CQ Researcher Online, The CQ Public Affairs Collection and CQ Historic Documents.

This is a timely and objective resource on money in politics. The service allows you to track the flow of money in politics by providing up-to-date filings from the FEC and other sources, as well as 25 years of data on political contributions.

CQ offers the full text of every committee report dating to the 104th Congress in 1995. The information is searchable by keyword and bill number, and is organized by the full text, outline and sections with keywords.

CQ provides prepared witness statements as submitted to committees and subcommittees. You can view a full document of all testimony submitted to a hearing or use the outline to locate the statement of a specific witness in a separate document.

Search the official record of the proceedings and debates of Congress by bill number, keyword, member, speeches, amendments and more.

Track your bills in real time as they move through the legislative process. Bill actions, including floor votes, markup information and forthcoming activity are presented in reverse chronological order as they are entered throughout the day.

View comprehensive, up-to-date listings of every committee and subcommittee member. It also provides a brief overview of the committee’s jurisdiction and relevant contact information.

Provides gavel-to-gavel coverage of select newsworthy hearings. Updated throughout the day until they are complete, hearing transcripts offer verbatim record of the Q&A between members and agency, private sector and interest group witnesses.

CQ lists all votes on the House and Senate floors since 1991, and presents an overview of each bill, the vote count and final outcome. You can also view how each member voted and see who abstained. Information is updated within two hours of each vote.

Get to know Congress with detailed information on every member. CQs comprehensive profiles provide background on the members, helpful contact information, committee
assignments, vote studies, key votes and election results.

Provides verbatim transcripts of speeches, press conferences and news events. The bulk of the coverage focuses on the president, Congress, the Pentagon and federal agencies as well as interviews with key government officials on prominent TV shows.

A thorough, up-to-date calendar for House and Senate events in addition to robust coverage of events at the White
House, federal departments and agencies, leading
policy groups and more.

CQ Magazine is CQ's flagship publication. It takes you deep inside the policy-making process. CQ Magazine provides a clear and objective perspective on how legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how the process could affect your interests.

The official daily publication for the rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. The Federal Register is searchable by keyword, date, agency name or item type.

Provides information on historical and current issues in American politics and government, including: Political Handbook of the World; Washington Information Directory; Guides to Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Presidency, U.S. Elections and more.

CQ Researcher Online features original, comprehensive reporting and balanced analysis on issues of major issues of political import. CQ Researcher is a particularly good source of bibliographies on current topics.

CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates data, analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide research material on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races, ..