ON-LINE LOCATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS.

CONGRESSIONAL UNIVERSE:

This source has the full text of committee reports from 1990 to the present in an electronic, fully searchable format. (In addition, the database contains abstracts of committee reports issued prior to 1990. To find these abstracts, do a keyword search of the CIS Index (also part of Congressional Universe) and look for document results grouped under ‘reports.') [Congressional Universe is accessible from the law library's home page under ‘Online Subscriptions.' Once there, click on the subject heading ‘Publications, and then click on ‘Reports.']


THOMAS (Legislative Information on the Internet):

[http://thomas.loc.gov] (click on Committee Reports).
This source has the full text of committee reports in a searchable format from the 104th Congress (1995).


LEXIS and WESTLAW:

Law students and faculty with access to Lexis and Westlaw may locate committee reports through Lexis (Library: LEGIS / File: CMTRPT (from January 1990 through the present with select coverage of the 101st and 102nd Congress)) and through Westlaw (Database: ‘LH' (coverage begins in 1948)).


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CITATION EXAMPLE: H.R. Rep. No. 353, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951).