Students and scholars of the U.S. Congress can access historical House and Senate reports and documents through a WSU Libraries’ database.
The libraries recently purchased the final segment (1980-94) of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the printed record of the U.S. House and Senate begun in 1817. The set and another database, American State Papers, a repository of documents from before 1817, can be accessed by WSU-affiliated users in the list of article databases at https://libraries.wsu.edu/find-articles.
Congressional reports and documents printed after 1994 are available free online from the Government Publishing Office’s Federal Digital System, FDsys (https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/).
For more about the Serial Set, read the WSU News article at https://news.wsu.edu/2015/08/31/new-addition-to-database-of-u-s-congressional-documents/#.VeXdG5f3RAN.
