Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. Due to the large volume of requests that I receive from students, I am unable to respond specifically to individual information requests that come to us. But don’t worry, all the information that you need can be acquired right here on our website.

By clicking on the "Hearings and Markups" link on our homepage, you can access the testimony from all of our Full Committee and Subcommittee hearings that have been held over the past few years. You are also able to access the transcripts that the Committee has printed. These transcripts are a verbatim account of everything that is said during our Committee’s meetings. The transcripts from our markups are also contained in our committee’s legislative reports.

The Committee’s legislative reports contain loads of useful information, they can be accessed by clicking on the "Committee documents" link from our homepage. These reports give a detailed description of the bill, how it changes the existing law, and what it hopes to accomplish. They also contain all amendments that were offered and adopted during the Committee’s markup session and a list of the members who voted for them. If you want to know what the arguments on either side of the issue are, the transcript from the markup will give you a good idea of where people stand. There is also a section of additional and dissenting views included in the report that will further explain the views of members.

Our "Press Room" link can also be very useful to you. You can see what issues I am talking about in Congress right now, and get an idea of where I stand on each of them.

Our website also has links to other sites that can assist you in your research. By clicking on "Congressional Links" you can visit the websites of the Supreme Court or the Department of Justice and many others. You can find out how laws are made or check out the U.S. Constitution. There is also a link to "Thomas", which is a search engine run by the Library of Congress. On Thomas you can search for information on bills going all the way back to the 93^rd Congress (1973). You can search by bill number, name, keyword or sponsor.

I hope that this information will be of some assistance to you in your academic pursuits. Please feel free to browse around our website as there is even more information in addition to what I have just described. Again, thank you for visiting our site and I wish you the best of luck in your studies