If you’re a typical UW-W undergraduate, every congressional session that occured during your entire life time is available gratis online. What a bargain!
C-Span has put their archives on the web for free. The three C-SPAN cable channels, which cover every Congressional session, for both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also committee hearings, press briefings, conferences, and more, have put their archives on the Web. All the way back to 1987. Another 10,000 hours of coverage will be loaded for earlier recordings, but a lot of what was produced between 1979 and 1986 has not been saved.
For the full article in the New York Times, see C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web.
To visit the Archives, go to C-SPAN Video Library.
For newer recordings, visit C-SPAN.org.