Bill to Committee

• The presiding officer of the house in which the bill is introduced assigns the bill to a committee for in-depth study.
• The standing committee (or subcommittee) maintains its own calendar and sets up hearings to allow testimony from experts and laypeople interested in the bill.
• The committee then may vote to
  • release the bill with a recommendation to pass it
  • or revise the bill and then vote to release it (a meeting commonly called a "committee markup")
  • or vote to lay it aside so that it cannot be voted on by the full house.
• Releasing the bill is called reporting it out, while laying it aside is called tabling.

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Calendars, Hearings, Prints, Reports/Markup and Votes

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Committee Calendars
Coverage	Location
104th Cong. (1995) -	Calendars of the U.S. House of Representatives / U.S. Government Printing Office.
104th Cong. (1995) -	Senate Calendar of Business / U.S. Government Printing Office.
98th Cong. (1983) -	TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Legal) Row 19
Committee Hearings, Committee Prints
Hearings and prints are individually cataloged and shelved or filed in microfiche cabinets by call number.
Coverage	Location
104th Cong. (1995) -	Congressional Hearings / U.S. Government Printing Office
105th Cong. (1997) -	Committee Prints / U.S. Government Printing Office
Varies	U.S. House of Representatives Committees / U.S. House of Representatives
Varies	Senate Committee Web Sites / U.S. Senate
103rd Cong. (1988) -	LexisNexis Congressional
1st Cong. (1789) - 91st Cong. (1969) (Citations and abstracts only)	LexisNexis Congressional
	The citations retrieved from LexisNexis point to microfiche reprints that can be found using the CIS Collection Finder.
Committee Reports
Individual Senate and House reports, as first issued, have the call number Y 1.1/5: and Y 1.1/8:, respectively. Paper copies are shelved in Row 104 and kept until the corresponding permanent, bound Serial Set volume arrives.
Coverage	Location
104th Cong. (1995) -	Congressional Committee Reports / U.S. Government Printing Office
104th Cong. (1995) -	Thomas / U.S. Library of Congress
101st Cong. (1989) -	LexisNexis Congressional
1st Cong. (1789) - 91st Cong. (1969) (Citations and abstracts only)	LexisNexis Congressional
	The citations retrieved from LexisNexis point to microfiche reprints that can be found using the CIS Collection Finder.
Vol. 1, 15th Cong. (1817) - Vol. 8854, 70th Cong. 1st. Sess. (1928)	U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition
Committee Markup
Note: Committee "markups" mean different things in different resources. In LexisNexis Congressional, it refers to news reports about the markup sessions themselves. In LexisNexis Academic it refers to transcripts of the markup sessions. In Thomas, it refers to the committee report containing the marked up bill resulting from the markup session.
Coverage	Location
104th Cong. (1995) -	Thomas / U.S. Library of Congress
1977 - present	National Journal
varies	LexisNexis Academic Choose Political Transcripts in the Source Box on the Guided News Search Page
Committee Votes
No comprehensive source is available. The House and Senate Committee web sites offer selected votes. They can also be listed in committee reports.