How do I Search for a specific date, page number, and term in the Congressional Record?
We have modified the search fields in the U.S. Congressional Documents collection to allow you to add a specific date to your search query using a section date field. This is especially helpful when searching the Congressional Record. This will allow you to search on a specific date and/or a specific page for a word or a term. To illustrate this, let’s search for the Senate Amendment to H.R. 4986 on page 26099 as it appeared in the House of Representatives proceedings on November 14, 2000. When searching for a specific date using the Section Date field, you must enter the date in the following format: MM/DD/YYYY (i.e. 11/14/2000). First, if you want to see everything that took place on November 14th, 2000, you can simply run a search for the date. To run this search using the Field Search option, enter 11/14/2000 into the first search box, select Section Date from the drop down menu, click on word, select the Congressional Record from the title listing, leave all section types checked
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