Description

Committee Prints and Congressional Research Service Reports in ONE product

The real work of Congress is not performed on the floor of the House or the Senate, but in the hearing rooms and offices of hundreds of Congressional Committees and subcommittees. There, legislative policy is debated and developed, informed to a large extent by analysis found in Committee Prints and Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS). Both document types help legislators formulate policy decisions and provide to the public an idea of how Congress comes to its policymaking conclusion.  Where the documents diverge is in their point of view. CRS reports provide an impartial view of the topic at hand while Committee Prints set forth partisan view points. By combining the two complementary document types into one collection, the LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) allows users to consider policy decisions from a fuller view, giving their research more contextual relevance.

Features and benefits

LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection comes in two separate collections

Whether you are looking for historical information or just want to keep up with the current Congressional work, LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection can help by offering two subscription options: Retrospective and Prospective.

• Retrospective Collection – covering 1830 to 2003
  • One-time purchase with small annual maintenance fee
  • Approximately 50,000 documents and 4 million pages
  • Initial Release: August 2005; Complete by: 2007
• Prospective Collection – from 2004 to present
  • Annual subscription
  • About 7,000 documents and 91,000+ pages per year
  • Released early 2006; Ongoing updates

LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection has endless number of uses

• Important source of policy analyses and research for
  • Health care
  • Foreign policy
  • Economics
  • Public welfare
  • Environment
• Offers a wealth of policymaking information for students of
  • History
  • Social sciences
  • Other disciplines

Ease of use

CRDC is available through an easy to use, intuitive interface that appeals to all levels of researchers. Users can perform a “basic” search, and search across all congressional materials including the CRDC in a single search. Users can also perform an “advanced” search that enables them to search a specific publication type or to take advantage of precision indexing terms or use fielded searches for enhanced research specificity. All CRDC documents on LexisNexis include rich metadata attached to the documents with links to the PDFs of the entire document, as well as links to the PDFs of the documents in 50 page increments.

Indexing is key to a precise search

Our precise indexing provides authoritative search capabilities. Search by:

• Bill number
• Controlled subject headings
• Document or abstract full text
• Hearing number
• Public law number
• Statutes at Large citation
• Title
• Witness and affiliation

Searches can also be limited by date or Congress.

Target audience

Topics covered

Purchasing

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