David, et. al.
Copies of older congressional bills and resolutions on microfiche were
published by GPO and made available to the depository library community
from at least the 96th Congress through the 106th Congress (1979-2000). We,
at the Federal Reserve Board Law Library have this collection, and,
depending on the size of your request, we can perhaps send you the relevant
fiche through interlibrary loan.
CIS has also produced a microfiche copy of congressional bills and
resolutions from the 73rd Congress to the most recent complete Congress
(1933-2002;
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/3cis/cisl/ciscongressional_bills.asp)
and many libraries have acquired this set. The CIS documents offprint
service (http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/3cis/offprints.asp) can also
send you what you need for a price.
The Law Library of Congress has paper and microform copies of most all
bills and resolutions, and those from the 6th Congress to the 42nd Congress
(1799-1873) have been placed digitally on LC's American Memory Project
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwhbsb.html). Other libraries have, I
believe, acquired, part of the LC microform set. Harvard University
Library, for instance has those from 1913 to 1946.
Some libraries may have retained paper copies of selected bills. For
instance, we at the Federal Reserve Board Library, have nearly all banking
and Federal Reserve related legislation from 1913 to the present.
Finally, the Center for Legislative Archives (202-501-5350;
http://www.archives.gov/records_of_congress/about_the_cla/about_the_cla.html)
at the National Archives in Washington, DC, has thousands of bill files
from congressional committees. Those before 20 years ago in the Senate and
30 years ago in the House are available for the public to research.
Rick McKinney
Assistant Law Librarian
Federal Reserve Board
Washington, DC 20551
rick.mckinney@frb.gov
"David Selden"
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Sent by: Subject: Copies of older U.S. Senate/House bills not
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Hello all -
I have had difficulty finding copies of U.S. House and Senate bills from
the 95th and 96th Congresses (1977-1979). I am looking for bills that never
passed.
I have looked several sources including:
The Thomas (thomas.loc.gov) web site, Congressional Record, Hearing docs,
and could not locate a library that has the government microfiche
collection of "House Bills" sudoc: Y 1.4/6 or "Senate Bills" sudoc: Y 1.4/1
that covers the 95th and 96th Congress to request ILL copies.
Does anyone have any tips on how to locate these older bills?
David Selden, Law Librarian
National Indian Law Library/Native American Rights Fund
1522 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80302
p (303) 447-8760
f (303) 443-7776
dselden@narf.org
http://www.narf.org/nill/Nillindex.html
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