# Looking up bills/legislation **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 19, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-bills-legislation/373284 "2006-09-19T16:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-bills-legislation/373284/1 "2006-09-19T16:38:12Z")
I’m interested in looking up specific bills. Basically, there’s an ad campaign that’s running in my state right now that’s gotten a little ugly, and I’d like to do some of my own research in regards to the ads. The sort of information I have to go off of looks like this: H.R. 3164, CQ Vote #555: Motion agreed to 385-26: R 203-8; D 182-17; I 0-1, November 2, 1999. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-bills-legislation/373284/2 "2006-09-19T16:44:30Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] Any suggestions? [/QUOTE] The [library of congress website](http://thomas.loc.gov/) has text of all bills and related documents. Here’s the [specific bill](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.03164:) you are looking for, HR 3164 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-bills-legislation/373284/3 "2006-09-19T17:25:53Z")
The Washington Post keeps a [votes database here](http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/). It won’t have _all_ the information you want, but it’ll have some. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-bills-legislation/373284/4 "2006-09-19T17:27:06Z")
Thanks!