Quick Start: Congressional Hearings Digital Collection   Tags: congressional, hearings, quick start guides  

The Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, or CHDC, is a collection of published and unpublished hearings held by Congress. 

Congressional committee hearings may be classified into four types: legislative, oversight, investigative, and confirmation.

Official hearings, which are printed by the Government Printing Office (GPO), usually include:  written and oral statements of witnesses; transcripts of the verbal question-and-answer session between committee members and witnesses; reports, exhibits, and other materials submitted for the record by witnesses; and correspondence and other materials submitted by interested parties. 

For more information on hearings look at:

• Our YouTube video, or,
• The Hearings White Paper.  

And for information on searching in Congressional, see the ProQuest Congressional Training Videos, in the box to the right.

The URL for Congressional is:  http://search.proquest.com/congressional  

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Users can search for hearings (and any other materials subscribed to or purchased) through the Basic Search tab. 

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