<Li> Conference committees . CRS analysts can contribute to this last stage of the legislative process by helping identify the issues to be resolved, by clarifying and comparing the positions of the two houses on each issue, and by identifying different ways in which the legislative disagreements could be resolved . </Li> <P> CRS also performs several functions that support Congressional and public understanding of the legislative process and other issues . </P> <Ul> <Li> Bill Summaries . Since 1935 the Legislative Analysis and Information Section (formerly "Bill Digest") of CRS has had statutory responsibility for preparation of authoritative, objective, nonpartisan summaries of introduced public bills and resolutions and maintenance of historical legislative information . Detailed revised summaries are written to reflect changes made in the course of the legislative process . This CRS office also prepares titles, bill relationships, subject terms, and Congressional Record citations for debates, full texts of measures, and Member introductory remarks . The bill summaries are released to the public via THOMAS, the Library of Congress's online database . </Li> <Li> Constitution Annotated . The American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service prepares the Constitution of the United States of America--Analysis and Interpretation (popularly known as the Constitution Annotated), a continuously updated legal treatise that explains the U.S. Constitution as it has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Bill Summaries . Since 1935 the Legislative Analysis and Information Section (formerly "Bill Digest") of CRS has had statutory responsibility for preparation of authoritative, objective, nonpartisan summaries of introduced public bills and resolutions and maintenance of historical legislative information . Detailed revised summaries are written to reflect changes made in the course of the legislative process . This CRS office also prepares titles, bill relationships, subject terms, and Congressional Record citations for debates, full texts of measures, and Member introductory remarks . The bill summaries are released to the public via THOMAS, the Library of Congress's online database . </Li>

The congressional research service and the government accountability office are examples of