ProQuest® Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection
At the heart of this product is a combination of GPO's detailed indexing enhanced with the ProQuest Congressional indexing vocabulary — making it easy both to pinpoint the information you want and search across many types of legislative content with one thesaurus. Each congressional day is richly indexed with a detailed record that provides your users with the full text of that day. The digital edition also allows for ease of movement from day to day should researchers wish to follow an issue's debate.
ProQuest makes it easy to search quickly through more than 200 years of Congressional debate. Delivered through the acclaimed ProQuest Congressional or as a stand-alone product, our interface makes it easy to search the collection and find exactly what you need.
You'll be able to search the entire digital archive by:
- Keywords and full text
- Controlled subject indexing
- Names of members of Congress
- Proceedings content types
- Roll call vote descriptions
- Bill and resolution numbers and descriptions
- Legal citations to reports, bills, and laws
Target your results by limiting searches to specific sections:
- Full proceedings by chamber
- Appendices
- Extension of Remarks
- Daily Digest
Link to other documents within the ProQuest Congressional suite:
- Committee hearings
- Congressional reports
- Full text of bills, public laws, and Statues at Large
