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Overviews

• How Our Laws Are Made (THOMAS) June 2003
• How Our Laws Are Made (Senate Document 108-93) (GPO Access) June 2003; also available in PDF; searchable also via Senate, House and Treaty Documents
• Enactment of a Law (THOMAS) by Robert B. Dove Parliamentarian, United States Senate; February 1997.
• U.S. Senate: Legislation and Records (U.S. Senate) provides information about the Members of the Senate and its Committees as well as links to information on legislation and the legislative process.
• Legislative Branch (Library of Congress) provides many links to information about the members of both houses of Congress and about Congressional committees.
• The Legislative Process (U.S. House of Representatives) provides access to the texts of proposed legislation introduced in the House during the present Congress as well as extensive information on the status of such bills.
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress) features include: Bills and Resolutions, Public Laws by Law Number, Roll Call Vote

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Documents

• Congressional Bills (Library of Congress, THOMAS)
  101st Congress (1989 - 
  
• Congressional Bills (GPO Access)
  103d Congress (1993 -
• Congressional Bills, Catalog of (GPO Access)
  103d Congress (1993 -
• Congressional Documents (GPO Access)
  104th Congress (1995 -
• Congressional Hearings (GPO Access)
  Selective only; 105th Congress (1997 -
• Congressional Prints (GPO Access)
  105th Congress (1997 -
• Congressional Reports (GPO Access)
  104th Congress (1995 -
• Calendars of the U.S. House of Representatives and History of Legislation (GPO Access)
• Senate Calendar of Business (GPO Access)

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Congressional Record

• Congressional Record (Library of Congress, THOMAS)
  101st Congress, Vol. 135 (1989 -
  Provides a searchable and browsable full-text version of the proceedings of the United States Congress. 
• Congressional Record (GPO Access)
  104th Congress, Vol. 141 (1995 -
  
• Congressional Record Index (Library of Congress, THOMAS)
  104th Congress, Vol. 141 (1995 -
• Congressional Record Index (GPO Access)
  (1983 -
• Congressional Record - Predecessors (Law Library/National Digital Library Program:
  • Annals of Congress
    1st Cong. -18th Cong., 1st sess. ((Mar. 3, 1789-May 27, 1824)
  • Register of Debates
    18th Cong., 2d sess. -24th Cong., 2d sess. (Dec. 6, 1824-Mar. 3, 1837)
  • Congressional Globe
    23d Cong., 1st sess.- 42d Cong., 2d sess. (Dec. 2, 1833-Mar. 3, 1873)
  • Congressional Record
    43d Cong. (1873-1875)

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Manual

• Cannon's Precedents of the House of Representatives (GPO Access) 1935-1941; 7 vols.
• Constitution, Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives, 108th Congress  (GPO Access) H.Doc. 107-284; 107th Cong., 2d Sess.
• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives (GPO Access) H.Doc. 94-661; 94th Cong., 2d Sess.
• Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives (GPO Access) 1907-1908
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (GPO Access) 2003; 108th Cong., 1stSess.
• Riddick's Senate Procedure (GPO Access) S.Doc. 101-28; 101st Cong., 2d Sess.
• Senate Manual (GPO Access) S.Doc. 107-1; 107th Cong.

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Miscellaneous

• Active Legislation (U.S. Senate)
• Legislative Activities (U.S. House. Office of the Clerk)
• Legislation and Records Home (U.S. Senate)
• Legislative Branch Resources (GPO Access)
• Table of Congressional Volumes and Presidential Issuances: 1789-2005 (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.) in PDF
• Information USA (U.S. Dept. of State) - offers information about the United States as well as links to other informational sources on the Internet
• USA.gov: Federal Legislative Branch (USA.gov)
• For U.S. Federal Laws, see GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: U.S. Law: U.S. Code, Statutes at Large, and Public Laws
• For Federal Regulations and Code of Federal Regulations, see the GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: U.S. Executive Agencies and Regulations

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