I find http://www.google.com to be a fairly good search engine

Thanks, Alex. I'm partial to Google as well, for general searches, but it seems as though the search results are based strictly on Boolean compatibility, with little regard to the date of the report. In this case, I entered similar keywords to those you indicated--and got several interesting articles, but none more recent than early 2000. I was particularly interested in the name and authors of the bill in question, so this wasn't quite what I had in mind.

I'm looking, more specifically, for a current-news-based search engine.