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Researching U.S. Federal
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Step Two: Committee
Referral and Action
The presiding
officer of the house in which the bill is introduced assigns
the bill to a committee for in-depth study. The standing
committee (or often a subcommittee) maintains its own calendar
and sets up hearings to allow testimony from experts and
laypeople interested in the bill. The committee then may vote
to release the bill with a recommendation to pass it, or
revise the bill and then vote to release it (a meeting
commonly called a "committee markup"), or vote to lay it aside
so that it cannot be voted on. Releasing the bill is called
reporting it out, while laying it aside is called tabling.
Resulting Publications and Locations:
Sources in italics are available only to students,
faculty, and staff of the U of M unless accessing from a U of
M campus library.
Must-Have Information
for Committee Publications
Committee Calendars
Committee Hearings, Committee Prints
- Hearings and prints are individually cataloged and
shelved or filed by call number. Paper copies are shelved in
the US Docs section, generally Rows 83 through 99.
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Indexing and abstracting of
published and unpublished committee hearings and committee
prints: 1st Congress (1789) - 92nd Cong. (1972). Citations
will direct user to companion microfiche sets. Ask at GPL
desk for assistance locating microfiche.
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Selected Full-Text testimony from
hearings: 103rd Cong. (1988) - present
- GPO
Access - Hearings
Full-Text: 105th Cong. (1997) -
present
- List
of Hearings Web Sites (U of Michigan)
Look here
first! Describes the sites, gives helpful hints such as
years of hearings available.
- House
Committee Web Sites
Content and Coverage Varies by
Committee
- Senate
Committee Web Sites
Content and Coverage Varies by
Committee
- GPO
Access - Prints
Full-Text: 105th Cong. (1997) -
present Committee Reports
- Individual Senate and House reports, as first issued,
have the call number Y 1.1/5: and Y 1.1/8:, respectively.
Paper copies are shelved in Row 103 and kept until the
corresponding permanent, bound Serial Set volume
arrives.
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Citations: 1st Cong. (1789) - 92nd
Cong. (1972)
Citations will direct user to companion
microfiche sets. Ask at GPL desk for assistance locating
microfiche.
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Full-Text: 101st Cong. (1989) -
present
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Abstracts & Citations: 92nd
Cong. (1970) - present
- GPO
Access
Full-Text: 104th Cong. (1995) - present
- Thomas
Full-Text: 104th
Cong. (1995) - present Committee
Markup
NOTE: Committee "markups" mean different things
in different resources. In LexisNexis Congressional, it refers
to news reports about the markup sessions themselves. In
Academic Universe it refers to transcripts of the markup
sessions. In Thomas, it refers to the committee report
containing the marked up bill resulting from the markup
session.
Committee Votes
No
comprehensive source is available.
- The House
and Senate
Committee web sites offer selected votes.
- They can also be listed in committee reports.
Must-Have Information for Committee
Publications
- Look in MNCAT,
the U of M Catalog and (LexisNexis
Congressional) for exact call numbers (also called
"SuDoc Numbers") to specific publications.
- Where given, row numbers lead to the exact shelving
location the Government Publications Library - look for
large numbers on the end of each shelving row. Rows are
numbered in a clockwise direction around the room.
- The University Law Library also has most of these
publications.
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