Legislative

Once a bill is passed into law it is first published as an unbound pamphlet known as a "slip law". It is given a U.S. Statutes at Large citation and a U.S. Code classification. The Statutes at Large provides a permanent collection of the laws of each session of Congress in bound volumes chronologically arranged exactly as enacted. The U.S. Code contains a consolidation and codification of U.S. law arranged by subject. If you only have the popular name of an act, Cornel University Law School provides a very useful index of Popular Names of Acts that gives the Statutes at Large and the U.S. Code citation. For more information, see How Our Laws Are Made.

Congressional Universe Fulltext laws, bills, and regulations (dates vary, some back to 1969). (AC)

United States Code via the U.S. House of Representatives

United States Code via GPO Access

United States Code (with supplements)

In Library: Ref KF 62.A2

United States Code Annotated (with supplements)

In Library: KF 62.5 W5

United States Statutes at Large

Volume 1, 1789 to present

In Library: xKF 50.U52

Statutes at Large are updated by "Slip Laws"

In Library: Ref KF 50.U52

Congressional Bills via the Library of Congress

103rd Congress, 1993/1994 to present

To find materials such as hearings and reports, see Congressional Publications at Amherst College.

To compile a federal legislative history, see Federal Legislative History Documents: Listings of Electronic Sources with Years/Congresses Available

Judicial- Introduction to the Federal Courts

Supreme Court: