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The ''Congressional Record'' consists of four sections: the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] section, the [[United States Senate|Senate]] section, the Extensions of Remarks, and, since the 1940s, the Daily Digest.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} At the back of each daily issue is the Daily Digest, which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities and serves as a table of contents for each issue. The House and Senate sections contain proceedings for the separate chambers of Congress.
A section of the ''Congressional Record'' titled [[Extensions of Remarks]] contains speeches, tributes and other extraneous words that were not uttered during open proceedings of the full Senate or of the full House of Representatives. Witnesses in committee hearings are often asked to submit their complete testimony "for the record" and only deliver a summary of it in person. The full statement will then appear in a printed volume of the hearing identified as '''"Statements for the Record"'''. In years past, this particular section of the ''Congressional Record'' was called the "Appendix".<ref>{{cite web| 1=| title=Congressional Glossary| url=http://congress.indiana.edu/congressional-glossary#StatementfortheRecord| publisher=The Center on Congress [[Indiana University Bloomington]]| accessdate=July 17, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719141301/http://congress.indiana.edu/congressional-glossary#StatementfortheRecord| archive-date=July 19, 2015| dead-url=yes}}</ref> While members of either body may insert material into Extensions of Remarks, Senators rarely do so.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} The overwhelming majority of what is found there is entered at the request of Members of the House of Representatives. From a legal standpoint, most materials in the ''Congressional Record'' are classified as [[secondary authority]], as part of a statute's [[legislative history]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}}
By custom and rules of each house, members also frequently "revise and extend" their remarks made on the floor before the debates are published in the ''Congressional Record''. Therefore, for many years, speeches that were not delivered in Congress appeared in the ''Congressional Record'', including in the sections purporting to be verbatim reports of debates.<ref name=LLRX>{{cite web| url=http://www.llrx.com/congress/onthefloor.htm| work=CongressLine| publisher=GalleryWatch.com| title=On the Floor, In Congress| date=December 15, 2005| first1=Paul| last1=Jenks| first2=Will| last2=Hall| first3=Dan| last3=Peake| lastauthoramp=y| accessdate=July 17, 2015| deadurl=yes| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721233946/http://www.llrx.com/congress/onthefloor.htm| archivedate=July 21, 2015| df=}}</ref> In recent years, however, these revised remarks have been preceded by a "bullet" symbol or, more recently and currently, printed in a [[typeface]] discernibly different from that used to report words spoken by members.
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