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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 104th Congress, 1st Session

WHAT IS THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD?

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.

CONTENTS

This database contains information from the first session
of the 104th Congress (January 4, 1995 and continuing through
the present).

**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 contains a summary of the actions that took
place both on the floor of 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, Remarks, and 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.

When using fields in searching, follow the field name with
an equal = sign.

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:

SEARCH:                         TO FIND:

health                          documents containing the
                                search term 'health'

health ADJ care ADJ reform      documents containing the
                                search terms 'health care
                                reform' adjacent to each
                                other and the order
                                specified

health care reform              documents containing the
                                terms 'health', 'care', and
                                'reform' (AND is the
                                default connector)

part = house AND roll ADJ       documents containing 
no ADJ 23                       the search terms 'roll no
                                23' adjacent to each other
                                in the House part of the
                                Record only

part = senate AND rollcall      documents containing
ADJ vote ADJ 16                 the search terms 'rollcall
                                vote 16' adjacent to each
                                other in the Senate part
                                of the Record only

(h.r. OR h. ADJ r.) ADJ 1949    documents containing
                                the search terms 'h.r. 1949'
                                or the search terms 'h. r.
                                1949' 

NOTE:
While the Record is the public proceedings of each House
of Congress, Members are allowed to revise and extend
their remarks.  This may result in material being inserted
in the Record that was never spoken on the Floor.  The
Joint Committee on Printing controls the arrangement
and style of the Record.        

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