The site provides free access to a huge quantity of material and no subscription or affiliation is required to enter, search, select and retrieve the US Congress records offered by this website.
Access to THOMAS databases and related records is totally free -- no registration of any kind is required
All material contained in THOMAS is totally retrievable for free by all users
The site contains a limited number of external links, all directed to the Congress Houses and Government Offices websites. Internal linking with the Library of Congress are very well integrated