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Jenkins On Your Desktop: Congressional Hearings on HeinOnline
The U.S. Congressional Documents library on HeinOnline contains select Congressional Hearings, with coverage beginning with the 50th Congress (1887-1889). The U.S. Congressional Documents library also contains the Congressional Record, select CRS Reports and Committee Prints, and a wide variety of other documents.
A hearing is a meeting of the House, Senate, or a committee to discuss proposed legislation, research, data, investigations, or government activities. Hearings are generally open to the public, and transcripts may be published two months to two years after the meeting.
Congressional hearing documents may record testimony from members of Congress, the Executive branch, experts, interest groups, and the general public. Speakers may discuss a wide variety of topics, but not all proposed legislation is necessarily discussed. Hearings may be organized by committee, title, or number, depending on the resource or type.
To access the U.S. Congressional Documents, use your last name and member number to log into Jenkins' website. From the Member Center, select HeinOnline. Once in Hein, from the Collections list on the left side select U.S. Congressional Documents, then click on Congressional Hearings from the drop-down list or tabs at the top of the screen.
From the list of available hearings, you may browse by title using the alphanumeric tabs toward the top of the screen. To narrow the focus of hearings in this collection, use the drop-down menus to filter by Congress, Chamber, Committee, or enter terms in the Text field.
For more search and browse tips within this HeinOnline library, see the U.S. Congressional Documents Quick Reference Guide. For more information on where to find hearings, see the Committee Hearings page of our Federal Legislative History resource guide.
For additional training and hands-on experience searching HeinOnline, register for the Jenkins Law Library: On Your Desktop CLE class. The class also covers other membership databases like ProQuest Congressional, Nolo, Law Journal Press Online Books, and Loislaw Treatise Library.
HeinOnline is a membership database available to most Jenkins members.
