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The ''Congressional Record'' is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Printing Office and issued when Congress is in session. Indexes are issued approximately every two weeks. At the end of a session of Congress, the daily editions are compiled in bound volumes constituting the permanent edition. A similar publication in the United Kingdom is Hansard. ==Overview== The ''Congressional Record'' consists of four sections: the House section, the Senate section, the Extensions of Remarks, and, since the 1940s, the Daily Digest. At the back of each daily issue is the Daily Digest, which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities and serves as a table of contents for each issue. The House and Senate sections contain proceedings for the separate chambers of Congress. A section of the ''Congressional Record'' titled Extensions of Remarks contains speeches, tributes and other extraneous words that were not actually uttered during open proceedings of the full Senate or of the full House of Representatives. Witnesses in committee hearings are often asked to submit their complete testimony "for the record" and only deliver a summary of it in person. The full statement will then appear in a printed volume of the hearing identified as "Statements for the Record". In years past, this particular section of the ''Congressional Record'' was called the "Appendix". While members of either body may insert material into Extensions of Remarks, Senators rarely do so. The overwhelming majority of what is found there is entered at the request of Members of the House of Representatives. From a legal standpoint, most materials in the ''Congressional Record'' are classified as secondary authority, as part of a statute's legislative history. By custom and rules of each house, members also frequently "revise and extend" the remarks they actually made on the floor before the debates are published in the ''Congressional Record''. Therefore, for many years, speeches that were not actually delivered in Congress appeared in the ''Congressional Record'', including in the sections purporting to be verbatim reports of debates. In recent years, however, these revised remarks have been preceded by a "bullet" symbol or, more recently and currently, printed in a typeface discernibly different from that used to report words actually spoken by members. The Congressional Record is publicly available for records before 1875 via the Library of Congress' American Memory Century of Lawmaking website and after 1989 via THOMAS.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://thomas.loc.gov/home/abt_thom.html )〕 For the time period in between, the records are not freely available online, but are commonly found in large library systems or college libraries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=How to...find the Congressional Record )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Congressional Record」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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