Jeffrey C. Griffith <br/><br/>
Congress’ legislative information systems :  THOMAS and the LIS 

 - New York :  Pergamon,  2001 
<br/><br/> Information about the legislative activities of the United States Congress is widely available to the public and to the Members themselves through the THOMAS/LIS system http://thomas.loc.gov. This article describes the origins of this system and the way in which it integrates distributed legislative data into a single searchable system. It discusses planned enhancements and a number of technical and policy issues that such systems raise.  "What a terrific site  "Just wanted to say THANKS  "[The LIS and THOMAS were] one of the most remarkable successes LC has had in digital information management systems" (National Research Council, 2000)