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Finding Facts, Reviews, and More
Researching U.S. Federal Legislation
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Step Five: Conference Committees
The bill may move onto a conference committee, which is made up of members from each house. The committee works out a version the House and Senate can live with and sends it back to both houses for their final approval.
If the bill goes to conference and survives, then there is usually a published report to go with it that becomes part of that bill's legislative history.
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 Conference Committee Publications
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: 1970 - present
- GPO Access
Full-Text: 104th Cong. (1995) - present
- Thomas
Full-Text: 104th Cong. (1995) - present
Must-Have Information for Conference Committee Publications
- The University Law Library also has most of these publications.
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