Public Policy

Searches the full text of U.S. Senate, House, joint or special committee hearings published by the U.S. Government Printing Office; updated monthly. This resource has been developed by the OU Libraries and supports user accounts which may be utilized to collect individual search results for statistical analyses. To request a user account, contact Tara Carlisle, Digital Scholarship Specialist.

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, and information about congressional members and committees, and Executive documents 1789-1931. Some full text available.

Provides access to information disseminated by the U.S. Government Printing Office. It provides official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Index of U.S. government documents and some technical reports.

Published by the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. Provides background material and statistical data on the major entitlement programs and other activities within the Committee's jurisdiction. Includes a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, and poverty.

Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Texts available include the full text of the Public Law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.

Comprehensive guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication. Includes title information for federal documents and subject index entries from Poore's, Hickcox and the GPO Monthly Catalog.

Contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as governmental session laws from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Bahamas. Full text available.

Features the complete Congressional Record bound version (PDF), as well as the daily version back to 1980 (updated daily). Also includes the following predecessor titles: Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789), Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), as well as Congressional Hearings (1927-2012) and other important congressional material.