Research Guides: Congress: Bills

Tracking Bills in Congress

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After you log in to your Nexis Uni account and search, you can create an alert to monitor changes to a bill going through the legislative process. You can create these alerts from a full text bill or a bill tracking document. Once logged in you will see a bell icon at the top of the results screen

Text of Bills and Amendments

ProQuest Congressional
Bills from 1789 to present
Congress.gov
Bills from the 93rd (1973-1974) to present

Committee Votes

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Search the House and Senate Reports to find the Committee Report on the bill. You can search for publications related to the bill number. The committee vote will be written in to the narrative of the report.

Roll Call Votes

CQ Congress Collection
Voting records by session or topic. Allows special analysis like party unity.
Congress.gov
The Library of Congress portal for legislative information. Offers full-text bills, bill tracking and public laws back to the 93rd Congress (1973) ; House and Senate roll call votes back to 101st congress (1989); Congressional Record back to 101st (1989).

Bill Status

Congress.gov
The Library of Congress portal for legislative information. Offers full-text bills, bill tracking and public laws back to the 93rd Congress (1973) ; House and Senate roll call votes back to 101st congress (1989); Congressional Record back to 101st (1989).
ProQuest Congressional
Go to Legislative Histories, Bills & Laws and select Bill Tracking. Goes back to 1989. UM users only.
CQ Congress Collection
An analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. UM users only.
CQ Researcher
Analysis policy issues by topic going back to 1923. Each issue has a Pro/Con UM users only.
CQ Magazine
Weekly report on the activities of congress starting in 1991. Includes floor votes. UM users only.

CQ Roll Call Legislative Service

CQ.com
We have a subscription for 5 users to access the Legislative Tracking and and Transcripts & Testimony portions of CQ Roll Call Legislative Service. This service provides bill tracking, markup, bill comparison and votes

Finding Bill Sponsors

Bill Sponsor information can be found in the Bill Profile Reports found in ProQuest Congressional.

Click on "Bills & Laws" under Document Types on the left. Then you can enter the bill name and year. You can also restrict the search by status if, for example, you only want to search bills that became law. (Restricting the search to bills that became laws will not be helpful in some cases, such as when the bill number that passes is a large omnibus bill)