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词条 Congressional Record
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  1. Overview

  2. History

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Publishing Office and issued when Congress is in session. Indexes are issued approximately every two weeks. At the end of a session of Congress, the daily editions are compiled in bound volumes constituting the permanent edition. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/chapter-9 Chapter 9 of Title 44 of the United States Code] authorizes publication of the Congressional Record.

Overview

The Congressional Record consists of four sections: the House section, the Senate section, the Extensions of Remarks, and, since the 1940s, the Daily Digest.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} At the back of each daily issue is the Daily Digest, which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities and serves as a table of contents for each issue. The House and Senate sections contain proceedings for the separate chambers of Congress.

A section of the Congressional Record titled Extensions of Remarks contains speeches, tributes and other extraneous words that were not uttered during open proceedings of the full Senate or of the full House of Representatives. Witnesses in committee hearings are often asked to submit their complete testimony "for the record" and only deliver a summary of it in person. The full statement will then appear in a printed volume of the hearing identified as "Statements for the Record". In years past, this particular section of the Congressional Record was called the "Appendix".[1] While members of either body may insert material into Extensions of Remarks, Senators rarely do so.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} The overwhelming majority of what is found there is entered at the request of Members of the House of Representatives. From a legal standpoint, most materials in the Congressional Record are classified as secondary authority, as part of a statute's legislative history.{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}}

By custom and rules of each house, members also frequently "revise and extend" their remarks made on the floor before the debates are published in the Congressional Record. Therefore, for many years, speeches that were not delivered in Congress appeared in the Congressional Record, including in the sections purporting to be verbatim reports of debates.[2] In recent years, however, these revised remarks have been preceded by a "bullet" symbol or, more recently and currently, printed in a typeface discernibly different from that used to report words spoken by members.

The Congressional Record is publicly available for records before 1875 via the Library of Congress' American Memory Century of Lawmaking website,[3] and since 1989 via Congress.gov (which replaced the THOMAS database in 2016).[4] Thanks to a partnership between GPO and the Library of Congress, digital versions of the bound editions are available on [https://www.govinfo.gov/ govinfo.gov] for 1873 to 2001 (Volumes 1-147) and 2005 to 2015 (Volumes 151-161).[5] [https://www.govinfo.gov/ Govinfo.gov] also provides access to digital versions of the daily edition from 1994 (Volume 140) to the present.[6]

History

The Constitution, in Article I, Section 5, requires Congress to keep a journal of its proceedings, although the House and Senate Journals are separate publications from the Congressional Record, and include only a bare record of actions and votes, rather than verbatim texts of the debates.

The Congressional Record was first published in 1873. Prior to this, proceedings, roll calls, debates, and other records were recorded in The Annals of Congress (formerly known as The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States) (1789–1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824–1837), or the Congressional Globe (1833–1873). A digital collection of these historical volumes is now available online via the Library of Congress.[3]

See also

  • Hansard, British parliamentary record

References

1. ^{{cite web| |title=Congressional Glossary| url=http://congress.indiana.edu/congressional-glossary#StatementfortheRecord| publisher=The Center on Congress Indiana University Bloomington| accessdate=July 17, 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.llrx.com/congress/onthefloor.htm| work=CongressLine| publisher=GalleryWatch.com| title=On the Floor, In Congress| date=December 15, 2005| first1=Paul| last1=Jenks| first2=Will| last2=Hall| first3=Dan| last3=Peake| lastauthoramp=y| accessdate=July 17, 2015| deadurl=yes| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721233946/http://www.llrx.com/congress/onthefloor.htm| archivedate=July 21, 2015| df=}}
3. ^{{cite web| title=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation| url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html| date=May 1, 2003| publisher=Library of Congress| accessdate=July 17, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/about |title=About the Congressional Record | publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=July 14, 2017}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/crecb|title=govinfo|website=www.govinfo.gov|access-date=2019-03-21}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/CREC|title=govinfo|website=www.govinfo.gov|access-date=2019-03-21}}

External links

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  • [https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/crecb Congressional Record Bound Edition] via GPO's govinfo (which replaced GPO's Federal Digital System, FDsys, Dec. 2018) from 1873-2001, and 2005-2015.
  • [https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/CREC Congressional Record Daily Edition] via GPO's govinfo (which replaced GPO's Federal Digital System, FDsys, Dec. 2018) from 1994 to present.
  • [https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/cri Congressional Record Index] via GPO's govinfo (which replaced GPO's Federal Digital System, FDsys, Dec. 2018) from 1983.
  • [https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record Search Congressional Record] from 1995 to present
  • Overview of the Congressional Record and Its Predecessor Publications: A Research Guide
  • Sessions of Congress and Corresponding Debate Record Volume Numbers
  • Find Congressional Record in a Depository Library
  • Sources for the Congressional Record: Free and Commercial for people with access to libraries
  • U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, containing the Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe, and Congressional Record, hosted by the Library of Congress
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