Hi All -
Thanks to all who have responded. I have the information I need. Thanks to
Rick McKinney and others for providing a description of sources available. See
nice summary below.
David Selden
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To: "David Selden" <dselden@narf.org>
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Subject: Re: Copies of older U.S. Senate/House bills not passed
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> David, et. al.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> "David Selden"
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> Hello all -
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Does anyone have any tips on how to locate these older bills?
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> 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
> Search the NILL Catalog: http://nillcat.narf.org
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