• Links to the full text of legislation is not available until the 101st Congress.
• Amendment information is not available for the 93rd and 94th Congresses.
• Abstracts of legislation are available only from the 94th to 102nd Congresses.
• The "Detailed Legislative History" was not added to the Status options until the 96th Congress.
• "Congressional Record Page References" were not added to the Status options until the 103rd Congress.
• Committee information was collected only for committees of referral from the 93rd to the 95th Congress; from the 96th Congress forward, Committee information includes committees of referral, origin and reporting.
• Information about bills becoming Public Law without the President's signature or becoming Public Law enacted over the President's veto is not searchable until the 102nd Congress.
• Subject (index) terms have been added and deleted since indexing of legislation began in 1973. A search using an index (Legislative Indexing Vocabulary - LIV) term added in the 104th Congress, for example, would not retrieve bills on that topic in the 93rd Congress. For Congresses earlier than the 104th, if you do not know the correct subject (index) term, do a word/phrase search on your topic, and note the term(s) listed under the Subject(s) option of bills of interest. Click on the hotlinked subject term to find other bills on that topic in that Congress.

Last Update Tues March 17, 1998