U.S. Federal Law Sources Legislative

United States Code 

• About the United States Code (U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Law Revision Counsel)
• Search the United States Code (Search by keywords or by fields including title & section; not current, update using the U.S. Code Classification Tables; plain text only)
• Download the U.S. Code (Download in plain text (txt) and pdf formats; not current, update using the U.S. Code Classification Tables; download plain text by title (in zip format) or by title & chapter; download pdf by title)
• Update the United States Code using the Classification Tables (Use the Classification Tables from the appropriate Congress, sorted in U.S. Code order, to determine whether a particular Code section has been amended by recently enacted Public Laws)
• GPO Access: United States Code (Government Printing Office; search by keywords, browse by list of titles; not current, update using the U.S. Code Classification Tables; plain text only)
• LII: United States Code Collection (Cornell Legal Information Institute; search by keywords, find by title & section, find by popular name, browse by list of titles; not current, update using the Update link and the U.S. Code Classification Tables; plain text only)

Public Laws (Session Laws) 

• Public & Private Laws (GPO Access; search by keywords, browse by Congress and Public Law number; 104th Congress to present; pdf)
• Public Laws (Thomas; browse by Congress and Public Law number, browse by bill type and number; 93rd Congress to present; pdf)
• Public Laws (NARA, Office of the Federal Register)

Legislation (Bills) 

• THOMAS Legislative Information (Bill Text and Status, Roll Call Votes, Public Laws by Number, Congressional Record, Committee Reports, etc.)
• Bills (Thomas, 101st Congress to present)
• Bills (GPO, 103rd Congress to present)
• Bill Summary & Status (Thomas, 93rd Congress to present)
• History of Bills (GPO, 1983, vol.129 to present, from the Congressional Record)

Congressional Hearings, Reports & Documents 

• Congressional Hearings (GPO, 105th Congress to present, limited coverage)
• Congressional Reports (Thomas, 104th Congress to present)
• Congressional Reports (GPO, 104th Congress to present)
• Congressional Documents (GPO, 104th Congress to present)
• Congressional Committee Prints (GPO, 105th to present, extremely limited coverage)
• Quick Links to House & Senate Committee Documents & Hearings (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.)

Congressional Record 

• Congressional Record (Thomas, 101st Congress to present)
• Congressional Record (GPO, 1994, vol. 140 to present)
• Congressional Record Index (Thomas, 104th Congress to present)
• Congressional Record Index (GPO, 1983, vol. 129 to present)
• Library of Congress: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873

Legislative History 

• LexisNexis Congressional (HUID & PIN required)
• THOMAS Legislative Information
• GPO Access: Legislative
• Legislative Sourcebook (PDF) (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.)

U.S. Congress 

• U.S. House of Representatives (Members) (Committees)
• House Committee Information (Official and unofficial publications, membership, jurisdiction and rules)
• U.S. Senate (Senators) (Committees)
• Senate Committee Information (Official and unofficial publications, membership, jurisdiction and rules)
• Political Divisions of the House of Representatives (Clerk of the House, 1789 to present)
• Senate Majority and Minority Parties (1789 to present)
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (1774 to present)
• Congressional Pictorial Directory 108th Congress (107th) (106th) (105th)
• Congressional History (Clerk of the House)
• Session Dates of Congress (Clerk of the House, 1st Congress, 1789 to present)
• Clerk of the House (House Members & Committees, Public Disclosure, Historical & Archival Information, House Documents, Calendars, Votes, etc.)
• Table of Congressional Publication Volumes and Presidential Issuances (LLSDC, 1789 to present, PDF)

Selected Divisions of the U.S. Congress 

• Architect of the Capitol
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• CBO Documents (Studies & Reports, Cost Estimates & Testimony)
• General Accounting Office (GAO)
• GAO Reports (About GAO Reports) (GAO, 1996 to present)
• GAO Reports (GPO, Search 1993 to present)
• Government Printing Office (GPO)
• GPO Access (Catalog of Publications) (Official Federal Government Information)
• Library of Congress (Copyright Office)
• Office of the Law Revision Counsel

Compiled and edited by Michael Jimenez.