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Federal Legislative History

Summary

This webinar will discuss how to find debates, hearings, reports and other documents that may reflect legislative intent regarding a bill as it moves through Congress. In addition, this webinar will explain what kind of documents are considered "legislative history" resources, and then explored methods of identifying and locating these items. In tackling this area of research, the focus was largely on how to find these documents online. The webinar also highlights freely-available governmental websites like Congress.gov, govinfo, and Law.gov.

Event Date

April 13, 2021

Running Time

1 hours 57 seconds

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Federal Legislative History. 2021. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9774/.

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(2021) Federal Legislative History. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9774/.

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Federal Legislative History. 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9774/>.

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