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Since the financial bailout is on everyone’s mind, I wanted to pass on tips from LexisNexis on how to use LexisNexis Congressional to find relevant information.
 
"The text of the Senate passed bill H.R. 1424 is available and may be accessed by searching for bill text using the Legislative Histories, Bills & Laws Get a Document form. Select the bill tracking option to access relevant Congressional Record abstracts. Relevant Congressional Record excerpts may also be accessed by using the Daily Congressional Record & Rules form to retrieve content for Oct. 1, and then narrowing your search to H.R. 1424 using the FOCUS™ Search feature.
 
Congressional Record excerpts which include debate and text of the substitute amendment to H.R. 3997 which failed in the House on Sept. 29, 2008, may be accessed by using the Legislative Histories, Bills & Laws Get a Document form to search for the bill. The text of the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3997 is included in the House Rules Committee Report 110-903, which may be accessed by searching on the publication number using the Search by Number form, and then clicking on the hyperlinked House report number in the results record to the full text."
 
Much of this info is also available at Thomas, but I had better luck searching by the law's short title: EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008. The bill and Congressional debate area also available at GPO Access.
"Happy" reading.