Is this really interesting: Congressional Record

A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office.

It is published daily when Congress is in session.

At the end of each session of Congress, all of the daily editions are collected, re-paginated, and re-indexed into a permanent, bound edition.

Daily Digests are only available when Congress is in session.

When Congress is in session, the Joint Committee on Printing publishes the Congressional Record Index biweekly.

This permanent edition, commonly referred to as the Bound Congressional Record, is made up of one volume per session of Congress, with each volume published in multiple parts.

In print, the Congressional Record Index contains both the index and the History of Bills and Resolutions.

View the Congressional Record by Day of Session from 1998 to the present.

Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format files.

View the Congressional Record Daily Digests from 2005 to the present.

The Congressional Record Index serves as the index to the Congressional Record.

GPO Access currently contains Bound Congressional Record Volume 145 , Volume 146 , and Volume 147.

… on GPO Access, the two parts of the print index are two separate applications.

GPO Access contains Congressional Record volumes from 140 to the present.

Files are in PDF format only.

At the back of each daily issue is the “Daily Digest,” which summarizes the day’s floor and committee activities.

Each year is listed by issue and divided into a table that provides easy access to the entire block of proceedings, the Daily Digest, and recorded votes.

To pull up a Congressional Record page, select a year, input the page number, and hit SUBMIT.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress.

The current year’s Congressional Record database is usually updated daily by 11 a.m., except when a late adjournment delays production of the issue.

The primary ways in which the Bound Congressional Record differs from the daily edition are continuous pagination; somewhat edited, revised, and rearranged text; and the dropping of the prefixes H, S, and E before page numbers.