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FAQs about Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection

Why doesn't the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection include more current content?

The Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection coverage corresponds to the publication of the bound version of the Record, including the release of the bound version indexes. We will continue to add additional content as additional editions of the Record are published. There has generally been a considerable lag between publication of the bound version proceedings and index volumes for a session; we will only add a session once the indexes have been published.

Can I still access the daily version of the Congressional Record that is available through the ProQuest Congressional basic subscription?

Yes. All basic subscribers, whether or not they purchase access to the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection, will continue to be able to access the daily version of the Congressional Record through the Advanced Search Form.

Why don’t the page numbers in the results for the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection correspond to the page numbers in the Congressional Record?

The PDFs provide collation numbers that represent the total number of pages within each publication. In order to provide you with documents that are fully portable (i.e., able to exist on their own away from the vendor's server), it is necessary to deliver the publications as fully functional PDFs, and PDFs only allow for the total number of digital pages in any given publication.

Why don’t the page numbers in the results for the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection correspond to the page numbers in the daily version of the Congressional Record?

The page numbers cited throughout the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection refer to page numbers in the permanent bound version of the Congressional Record that is published annually by GPO. If you don't have a citation that includes the permanent version page number, you can easily access the comparable content by using a date-restricted search.

Does the Congressional Record include bill texts?

The text of bills as passed by a Chamber is usually included. Since 1971 the Senate proceedings have included a list of newly introduced bills with a statements area in which bill sponsors frequently insert the text of the bill as introduced along with their comments. Conference committee reports, which are usually printed in the House proceedings, frequently contain the text of the conference version of bills.

How are the results lists for the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection arranged?

A search initiated from the special search form accessed through the Congressional Record tab will return results by date, arranged with the most recent dates appearing first.

A search initiated from the Basic, Search by Number, or Advanced forms (in cases where the search does not include the full text) will return the results partitioned by publication type, with the most recent documents appearing first. The results list can be re-sorted by date with the publication types co-mingled. A full text search initiated from the Advanced Search form will return the results by date, with the option of re-sorting by relevance.

Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection results always include the date of publication, the page range for that date, and the CIS accession number.

How are the results records for the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection organized?

Each record in the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection represents one day.

Note:

The indexing information contained in the record is presented in an expandable/collapsible view in order to facilitate user navigation on the page.

Only the text that was searched will be presented in expanded view, but you can access other by clicking Expand All or by clicking the expand icons for individual sections. In addition to bibliographic information, the record includes:

  • Durable URL
  • Links to results records for previous and subsequent days
  • Links to Daily Digest text
  • Links to congressional committee hearings held on the same day
  • Members of Congress, with associated subjects and page numbers and links to the Biographical Directory of the Untied States Congress
  • Other Speakers and Subjects, with CIS index terms, associated subjects and speakers, and page numbers
  • Roll Call votes, with associated subjects and page numbers
  • Bills and resolutions with bill numbers and associated bill numbers, brief descriptions, and page numbers
  • Searchable PDF replica of the original, available in its entirety and also in 50-page chunks in cases where the PDF is more than 50 pages long

    Note:

    A search that includes the full text will display the search terms associated with each PDF chunk. You can locate specific content within PDF chunks by launching a search within results in the box at the top of the results record.

What indexing does the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection offer?

The Digital Record provides all of the indexing available in the original GPO version, as well as additional controlled vocabulary to help you search the Record in conjunction with other congressional publications in the ProQuest Congressional product suite.

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