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CONTENTS
The Congressional Record is an important source for monitoring 
U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate activities such as
legislative actions, Floor debate, notices of bills introduced,
calendar information, and Member voting records. This database
is produced by House Information Systems, U.S. House of 
Representatives, from data provided by the Government Printing 
Office and is updated each day a Record is printed.  The
database contains information from the 103rd Congress,
beginning January 26, 1994 and continuing through December 20, 1994.

**The information in this database should be used for informational
purposes only and not for publishing official documents. The
printed version of the Record is the only official version of
the Record.**

SEARCHING
The Congressional Record is composed of four parts: floor
proceedings in the House, floor proceedings in the Senate,
Extensions of Remarks, and the Daily Digest. The Extensions of
Remarks contains remarks made by Members of the House that were
not included in the floor proceedings of the House. The Daily
Digest is a summary of the actions that took place in both the
House and Senate and includes chamber action and the schedule
for the next meeting.

Information in the Record is divided into documents by major
headings. It can be retrieved by a variety of methods including
Member name, date, subject, bill number, roll call number, and
fields. The fields available for searching in the Record are:

PART    - displays the segment (part) of the printed Record that
        is being referenced. The four parts are House, Senate,
        Extensions of Remarks, and Daily Digest. This information
        appears in parentheses to the right of the heading
        'CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.'

DATE    - displays the date of the printed Record

PAGE    - displays the page number in the printed Record. Each
        page number is prefaced by a letter referencing the part
        of the record in which the information appears (H=House,
        S=Senate, E=Extensions of Remarks, D=Daily Digest).
        This information appears on the right side of the screen. 

TITLE   - displays the major heading

TEXT    - displays the full text that appears under the major heading.

OUTLINE - displays the major headings and sub-headings

Single words can be entered as search terms (e.g., welfare). When
building search phrases (e.g., health care reform), you must use
'connectors' to link the words together. The connectors available
are ADJ, AND (default connector), OR, and NOT and they must be entered
in upper case.

Search examples:
        health
        health ADJ care ADJ reform
        health care reform (AND is the default connector)
        part=digest AND chamber ADJ action
        part=house AND roll ADJ no ADJ 23
        part=senate AND rollcall adj vote adj 16
        h.r. ADJ 1949

NOTE:
The Joint Committee on Printing controls the arrangement and style of
the Record, and while providing that it shall be substantially a
verbatim report of proceedings, Members are allowed to revise and
polish their remarks which can lead to inserted material never spoken
on the floor.
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