Congressional Committee Hearings

What is a Congressional Hearing? [Dr. Mark Mills drawing diagrams on a blackboard during testimony before the Congressional Joint Atomic Energy Committee hearings on atomic radioactive fallout] Negative: film, 1957 Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-U9-864A-4

Finding Congressional Committee Hearings Online:

• Public Documents Masterfile -- Coverage: 1700s-
• ProQuest Congressional -- Coverage: Index and full text hearings: 1824-
• LLMC Digital (Law Library Microform Consortium Digital Collection) -- Coverage: Searchable full text hearings: 1873-2007
• ProQuest Legislative Insight -- Selective Coverage: 1929-

• Internet Archive --Coverage varies
• Google books --Coverage varies
• HaithiTrust --Coverage varies
• Browse Hearings through GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys)
  Coverage: 91^st Congress, 1969-
• Search Hearings through GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys)
  Coverage: 105^th Congress, 1997-
• House of Representatives Committee sites and Senate Committee
  sites often provide summaries or transcripts of Congressional hearings available on their websites.

Finding Congressional Hearings on Video:

• C-Span Video Library All C-SPAN programs since 1987 can be viewed online for free.

Finding Congressional Hearings on Streaming Audio:

• Real time audio at C-Span --This site also provides a schedule of current and upcoming hearings.

Finding Congressional Hearings in paper:

• Main Reading Room--Congressional Hearings are available in the Main Reading Room Reference Collection for 1943-2006. These are organized first by Congress (e.g. 107^th Congress), then by House or Senate and finally, alphabetically, by the name of the Congressional committee (e.g. Agriculture, Appropriations).

• Law Library Collection. -- Coverage: 1880-

Finding Congressional Hearings in Microform

• CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index
  KF40 .C56
  Indexes available in LAW, MRR, N&CPRR
  Microfiche available in: LAW
  LAW microfiche call number: 91/10000 (K)
  Coverage: 1833-1969
  
  
• Congressional Information Service Index
  KF49 .C62
  Indexes available in LAW, MRR, N&CPRR
  Microfiche availble in: LAW
  LAW microfiche call number: (o) 91/10017 LL RR
  Coverage: 1970-
  
  
• CIS Index to Unpublished US House of Representatives Committee Hearings
  KF40 .C54
  Indexes available in Law, MRR
  Microfiche available in: LAW
  LAW microfiche call number: 90/10008
  Coverage: 1833-1968
  
  
• CIS Index to Unpublished US Senate Committee Hearings
  KF40 .C55
  Indexes available in LAW, MRR and N&CPRR
  Microfiche available in: LAW
  LAW microfiche call number: 91/10005 
  Coverage: 1823-1976
  
  
• Government Depository Collection

The Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room keeps the latest ten years of Congressional Committee Documents in print or on microfiche as part of the U.S. Federal Government Depository Collection.  A Superintendent of Documents number (SuDoc) is necessary in order to request these.  GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications  can help you find the SuDoc numbers.