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US Legislative Materials & Histories: Documents and Indexes

This guide is designed to help you find federal legislative documents in the Law Library, in the Graduate Library, and through online resources

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Each section of the Documents and Indexes Tab focuses on a specific type of document and lists the tools that are used to index it.  Each section also contains information on how to obtain that type of document.

There are 6 sections:

  1. Bills
  2. Committee Hearings
  3. Committee Reports
  4. Debates
  5. Committee Prints
  6. Presidential Documents

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