"Clam" (slang term for Scientologist)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Barry A. Popik wrote:

>     Does anyone know how to search the Congressional Record online?  Why
> isn't the whole thing in a digital format?  Isn't this the first thing the
> Library of Congress should have done?  I'm looking through the 1950s ("Making
> a federal case of it" and others).  Is that time period of the CR digital?
> If not, when can I expect it to be?

Lexis, Westlaw, and Thomas have the Congressional Record back to the
1980s.  Library of Congress American Memory plans to digitize the CR's
predecessor, the Congressional Globe.  I do not believe that any other
time periods of the CR are available online.  For the future, I would bet
that Congressional Universe or American Memory will eventually have the
complete CR digitized, but I don't know how when this will happen.


Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
  and Lecturer in Legal Research            ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
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