Hi All, I was asked how to look things up in the US Congress... The starting point is http://thomas.loc.gov/ or http://www.senate.gov/ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD The public proceedings of each House of Congress, as reported by the Official Reporters thereof, are printed pursuant to directions of the Joint Committee on Printing as authorized by appropriate provisions of Title 44, United States Code, and published for each day that one or both Houses are in session, excepting very infrequent instances when two or more unusually small consecutive issues are printed at one time. Public access to the Congressional Record is available online through GPO Access, a service of the Government Printing Office, free of charge to the user. The online database is updated each day the Congressional Record is published. The database includes both text and graphics from the beginning of the 103d Congress, 2d session (January 1994) forward. It is available on the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) through the Internet and via asynchronous dial-in. Internet users can access the database by using the World Wide Web... http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces150.html Try this out by selecting senate, a span of dates (say 09/19/2000 to 09/25/2000) and then typing the name of your state in the Search box... Ivan - Type in Maine and read about Home Health Care... Best regards ........ murray [log in to unmask]