To start, look at the Politics and Elections Resources page, which lists resources about elections.

For presidential speeches, check these news databases (available to Stanford users):

• Vanderbilt University Television Archives
• Facts on File from World News Digst (searchable news, special sections on recent elections)
• Lexis Nexis (has transcripts of radio and television programs)

Finally, you'll find many relevant materials by simply doing a Searchworks under subject search under "campaigns United States." Here are a few listings to get you started:

• American presidential campaigns and elections. William G. Shade, Ballard C. Campbell, editors (JK1965 .A57 2003 V.1-3, Location: SSRC)
• Electing the president, 2004 : the insiders' view. (JK526 2004 .E44 2006 Location: STACKS)
• Presidential elections, 1789-2004 Washington, DC : CQ Press, c2005. (JK524 .P6783 2005 Location: SSRC)

They are probably in SAL-3 and need to be paged. Here is the drill for finding these (the staff at the Information Center in Green can help with this process):

To page them from SAL-3, you must find their Series entry. So:

1. If you have a Y4 (Hearing or Print) that gives Green Fed Docs as its location, first make sure it's not on microfiche. (Those are housed in the microfiche drawers just to the left inside the Gov Docs Stacks doors, Bing Wing, first floor.)
2. If it isn't in the fiche collection, do a combined Socrates search. Set Format to “Serials,” Library to “SAL-3,” put the committee name in the Author field, and "hearing" or "hearings" in the Everything box.
3. Match the call number on the analytic record with the call number on the series. You can then page the item from SAL-3. Many hearings and prints are bound together, so the call number may contain several items.

Here's an example of how to locate a Socrates record listed in Fed Docs, but which is not on microfiche in Green:

1. Socrates record (excerpt):
   Report number: H.A.S.C. no. 99-2
   Organization: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services.
   Title: Defense Department authorization and oversight: hearings on H.R. 1872, Department of Defense authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 1986 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session.
   Imprint: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1985.
   Physical Description: 7 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
   Note: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
   GREEN CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION
   Y 4.AR 5/2 A:985-86/2/PT.1-7 1 FED-DOCS
2. Here's how you'd do a combined search on Socrates:
   EVERYTHING box: hearing or hearings
   AUTHOR box: armed services
   FORMAT: Serials
   LIBRARY: SAL-3
   This search yields two series records, one for 1999 and later, one for before 1999, and those numbers in the call number, 985-86, indicate the year: 1985-1986.
3. Here's the Socrates record of the correct series:
   Title: Hearings before and special reports made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on subjects affecting the naval
   and military establishments.
   Continued by: United States. Congress. House. Committee on National
   Security. H.N.S.C. (OCoLC)32612207 (DLC)sn 95020131
   SAL3--
   Location: STACKS copy 1
   Library has: [951-52/56-53 - 993-94/52-59]
   SAL3 CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION
   1)Y 4.AR 5/2 A:951-52/26-53 1 STACKS
   2)Y 4.AR 5/2 A:951-52/54,56-77 1 STACKS
   [Etc. for many, many volumes, until you come to:]
   284)Y 4.AR 5/2 A:985-86/2/PT.1 1 STACKS
   [And so on, until:]
   290)Y 4.AR 5/2 A:985-86/3 1 STACKS
4. Then, matching the call number on the "analytic" to the call numbers on the "series," you can page items 284 through 289. For such Committee Series, there will be hundreds of volumes on the record, so note the particular call number carefully.

There are two digital avenues to access Congressional hearings: LexisNexis Congressional and the University of Michigan's library catalog (under the advanced search option, select format = "electronic resources").

Update, 2010: An online database for Hansard [the official record of Parliamentary debates and votes] now gives all debates, divisions and members' names and districts, for 1805 to 2005.

Historical answer on Divisions:
When a "Division" or a roll call vote was taken, an alphabetical list was usually made of the members on each side. If there was a challenge to the Chair's conclusion about a yea or nea voice vote on a bill, a division was taken. In the 19th C, these were sometimes included in the Parliamentary Papers (PP), but not in the Debates. The Debates register whether a division was taken, give a Division List number (if it exists), and sometimes gives the total votes--but rarely gives the list itself.

The detailed lists of members' votes were not included in the bound sets of the PP. Over time, they were placed in various locations of Commons business: in Votes and Proceedings, or as a separate publication. The Parliament kept no official record of members' votes until 1836. Before then, unofficial lists appeared in newspaper accounts, letters, or manuscripts. For details about member votes for the late 18th and early 19th centuries, see Voting Records of the British House of Commons, 1761-1820, by Donald E. Ginter.

We have an online version of the 19th Century House of Commons Papers, but it doesn't include the . So for the 19th C, we must depend on the microfiche set of Division Lists. They cover the votes from 1836 to 1910. (We also have a microfiche set of the PP.) One approach is to check the Debates, find out if a division was taken, then use the Division Lists microfiche for the record of the votes.

The Chadwyck-Healey Subject Catalogue [index] of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900, which goes with their Parliamentary Papers fiche, includes a subject finding list of the Division Lists from 1842 to 1900, in Vol. 1, pp. 153-154. These can be searched in the online PP by searching "return of the number of divisions" using a date limit of 1842-1900. These are subject lists, with total votes on each bill, and do not include members' names. For names, you'll need the microfiche of the Division Lists.

Below are the catalog records for our holdings of the Parliamentary Debates. Currently, the Debates are not available in electronic format before 1988.

• A compleat journal of the votes, speeches and debates, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons throughout the whole reign of Queen Elizabeth, of glorious memory
• Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803
• Mirror of Parliament, 1828-1841 [Barlow]
• Parliamentary debates (Authorized edition), 1803-1908
• (The Debates of Lords and Commons split in 1909.) Parliamentary Debates, Commons, 1909-1993

From 1988 on, the debates are available online from the House of Commons.