Highlight: Legislative History Research Resources

 

 

Need to do legislative history research? Have you realized that legislative resources on Westlaw and Lexis are NOT comprehensive?  Are you afraid that there's a microfilm machine in your immediate future?  Don't worry! Regent University Law Library has built an extensive collection of electronic legislative research resources. The most comprehensive sits on the Proquest Congressional platform.  Regent University's ProQuest subscription includes the following modules: Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, Congressional Hearings Digital Prospective Collection, Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection, Congressional Research Digital Collection, and Serial Set Digital Collection, 1789-current.

The Law Library's HeinOnline subscription also contains a wealth of legislative history resources.  Our favorites are:

• U.S. Congressional Documents
• U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
• In addition to the inclusion of comprehensive federal legislative histories published by the U.S. GPO and private publishers, this library also includes a unique finding aid based on Nancy Johnson's award-winning work, Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories. Researchers should begin their U.S. federal legislative history research with this finding aid, which often includes references to law review articles on-point to a particular legislative history.
  U.S. Presidential Library

This library includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Daily and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and other documents related to U.S. Presidents.

As always, a law librarian is available to assist you in locating the most effective and efficient resource--even if you do need to use microfilm!