Legislative and Statutory Module: Segments


Congressional Member Profiles:

ASSIGNMENTS   The ASSIGNMENTS segment contains the Committee and subcommittee assignments of each member of Congress.
ASSIGNMENTS(Senate Governmental Affiars Committee)
EDUCATION   The EDUCATION segment contains the Degrees earned and educational institution attended by each member of Congress.
EDUCATION(B.S., Muskingum College)
ELECTION-DATE   The ELECTION-DATE segment contains the next election year of each member of Congress.
ELECTION-DATE(November 1998)
FUTURE-PLANS   The FUTURE-PLANS segment indicates whether a member of Congress is retiring or leaving Congress.
FUTURE-PLANS(Retiring)
MILITARY-SERVICE   The MILITARY-SERVICE segment contains the years served and position held in U.S. Military by each member of Congress.
MILITARY-SERVICE(Marines, 1942-1965)
NAME   The NAME segment contains the member of Congress.
NAME(John Glenn D-OH)
OCCUPATION   The OCCUPATION segment contains the occupation of each member of Congress.
OCCUPATION(Businessman)
PARTY   The PARTY segment indicates the political affiliation of each member of Congress.
PARTY(Democrat)
RACE   The RACE segment contains the race of each member of Congress.
RACE(Caucasian)
RELIGION   The RELIGION segment contains the religious affiliation of each member of Congress.
RELIGION(Presbyterian)
SEX   The SEX segment contains the sex of each member of Congress.
SEX(Male)


Bills:

CITE   Contains bill type and number. Use to retrieve reports by bill number.
CITE(h.r. 2)
DATE-INTRO   Date bill introduced in House or Senate. Arithmetically searchable.
DATE-INTRO = 1/7/97
HEADING   Includes bill type and number and short title of bill or resolution.
HEADING(Student Results Act)
OFFICE   The chamber in which the bill originated. Use to retrieve all bills from a particular chamber.
OFFICE (house)
SPONSOR   Original sponsor of bill or resolution.
SPONSOR(Goodling)
SYNOPSIS   Summary of bill or resolution.
SYNOPSIS( A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971)


Bill Tracking Reports:

BILL-DIGEST   Text of the bill digest from the Congressional Research Service.
BILL-DIGEST(school reform)
BILL-TITLE   Short title of bill or resolution.
BILL-TITLE(Emergency Supplemental Approps)
CITE   Contains bill type and number. Use to retrieve reports by bill number.
CITE(h.r. 2)
CO-SPONSORS   Name of original and added co-sponsors and date added to bill or resolution.
CO-SPONSORS(Andrews)
DATE   Includes bill introduction date and last-action date. Arithmetically searchable.
DATE = 11/22/1999
DATE-INTRO   Date bill introduced in House or Senate. Arithmetically searchable.
DATE-INTRO = 1/7/97
HEADING   Includes bill type and number and short title of bill or resolution.
HEADING(Student Results Act)
OFFICE   The chamber in which the bill originated. Use to retrieve all bills from a particular chamber.
OFFICE (house)
SPONSOR   Original sponsor of bill or resolution.
SPONSOR(Goodling)
SYNOPSIS   Summary of bill or resolution. Caption or long title of bill.
SYNOPSIS( A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971)


Committee Reports:

BILL#   Bill number associated with the committee report.
BILL#(H.R. 1596)
CITE   Report type and number
CITE (105 h. rpt. 208)
COMMITTEE   Committee which reported the bill.
COMMITTEE (Committee on the Judiciary)
CONGRESS   The current number of Congress
CONGRESS = 106
DATE   Date the committee report was issued. Arithmetically searchable.
DATE = 11/19/1999
RPT#   Number of committee report
RPT#(105-208)
SUBJECT   LexisNexis indexing terms assigned to the report.
SUBJECT(public schools)
TITLE   Short title of the bill or resolution
TITLE (Student Results Act)


Committee Prints:

CITE   The CITE segment contains the year, House or Senate, and print number of the report.
CITE(print 7522)
COMMITTEE   The COMMITTEE contains the name of the committee responsible for the report.
COMMITTEE(House Transportation)
CONGRESS   The CONGRESS segment contains the name of the Congress in which the report has been established.
CONGRESS(104th)
TITLE   The TITLE segment contains the name of the report.
TITLE(1995 status of nation's surface)


House and Senate Documents:

CONGRESS   The number of the two-year Congress which the document is printed followed by the appropriate congressional session.
CONGRESS(104th Congress; 2nd Session)
DOC#   Document number assigned to the document by the House or Senate.
DOC#(Senate Doc. 104-18)
TITLE   The title of the document.
TITLE(product liability litigation)


Committee Markups:

BILL-NO   The type and number of bill
BILL-NO(H.R. 2436)
COMMITTEE   Name of the committee that conducted the hearing
COMMITTEE(House Judiciary)
HEADLINE   Contains the title of the report.
HEADLINE(House Panel OKs Bill)
SUBCOMMITTEE   Each subcommittee of the House or Senate
SUBCOMMITTEE(Subcommittee on Science)
VOTE   Contains the name, party and number of votes of each member
VOTE(Yes)


Hearing Testimonies and Transcripts:

COMMITTEE   Name of the committee that conducted the hearing. (For committee hearing transcripts only)
COMMITTEE(senate commerce)
HEADLINE   Headline and/or subheadline(s) of the transcript.
HEADLINE(effects on the global economy)
HLEAD   Group segment that contains HEADLINE and LEAD.
HLEAD(crime bill and president clinton)
LOCATION   Contains place were event, committee, news briefing, conference, etc. is held.
LOCATION(washington, d.c.)
SPEAKER   Contains name and title of main speaker of a committee.
SPEAKER(david hobson)
SUBJECT   Term(s) which define or categorize the major theme of the transcript.
SUBJECT(glasnost)
TYPE   The type of transcript: committee hearing, speech, press briefing, news briefing, news event or news conference
TYPE(press briefing)
WITNESSES   Contains the names of the persons testifying before a committee. (For committee hearing transcripts only)
WITNESSES(congressman gil gutnecht)


Congressional Record:

BILL#   Bills referenced in the text of the Congressional Record document.
BILL#(H.R. 2)
CITE   The Congressional Record page number.
CITE(145 Cong Rec S 14752)
CONGRESS   The number of Congress you wish to search.
Congress(106th)
SPEAKER   The name(s) of members of Congress who spoke on the floor of the House or Senate.
SPEAKER(Goodling)
SUBJECT   LexisNexis indexing terms applied to the Congressional Record document.
SUBJECT(accreditation)


Legislative Histories – CIS Index:

CIS-NO   Contains the CIS-Number that is uniquely assigned to each document by CIS.
CIS-NO(s383-14)
DOC-TYPE   Contains information that identifies the document type, i.e., Hearing, Report, Print, Document or Legislative History.
DOC-TYPE(legislative history)
LEGIS-HIST   Contains the Public Law number for which a Legislative History has been created.
LEGIS-HIST(94-95)


Legislative Histories – CIS Historical Index:

CIS-NO   This segment will contain the CIS-NO that is uniquely assigned to each document.
CIS-NO(38-2 S.Rep.v.1n.114)
CONG-SESS   This segment contains the number of the two-year congress that issued the document.
CONG-SESS(38-2)
DOC-NO   This segment contains the official serial number assigned by Congress to Reports and Documents, or by the Senate to its Hearings and Prints.
DOC-NO(Mil. aff. 7, 2-2)
DOC-TYPE   This segment will identify the document type.
DOC-TYPE(Published Hearing)
SOURCE   This segment will contain information regarding the committee from which the document was generated.
SOURCE(Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War)
SUBCOMMITTEE   This segment will contain the name of the subcommittee.
SUBCOMMITTEE(Senate Subcommittee on Tariff)
TITLE   This segment will contain the title of the document.
TITLE(Attack on Petersburg)


Public Laws:

CITE   This segment contains the citation for document.
CITE(103 pl 10)
DATE   This segment contains the date of the law's approval.
date aft 2/93
HEADING   This segment contains the Public Law number, the congress and session, and the bill number.
HEADING(h.r. 750)
SYNOPSIS   This segment contains the synopsis of the law.
SYNOPSIS(secret service)


Statutes at Large:

AMENDMENTS   Contains the name of the amending law.
AMENDMENTS(National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991)
CITE   Contains the citation for the document.
CITE(63 pl 203)
DATE   Contains the date of the law's approval.
DATE is 8/14/1934
SHORT-TITLE   Contains the popular name of the law.
SHORT-TITLE(Social Security Act)
TREATY-COUNTRY   Contains the name of the country that agreed to a treaty with the United States.
TREATY-COUNTRY(germany)
TREATY-NUMBER   Contains the number of the treaty.
TREATY-NUMBER(eas 269)
TREATY-TOPIC   Contains the topic of the treaty.
TREATY-TOPIC(military aviation)
TREATY-TRIBE   Contains the name of the Indian tribe that agreed to a treaty with the United States.
TREATY-TRIBE(Camanche Indians)


United States Code:

CITE   contains the citation for a document.
CITE(50 uscs and 462)
HEADING   contains the number and name of the topic under which a document has been organized.
HEADING(privacy)
HISTORY   contains the history of a document.
HISTORY(1994 amendment)
TEXT   contains the text of a document.
TEXT (inva! w/5 privacy)
UNANNO   searches, displays and prints a document without annotations
UNANNO(1994 amendments)


State Codes – Varies by Individual State – Please review “Source Information” for Segments for each State’s Code