Research Guides: Congress: Laws

Sources for Laws

ProQuest Congressional
Select Legislative Histories, Bills and Laws. Can search by Public Law Number, Statute number, bill sponsor. To use the Popular Names table click on Statutes at Large and then click on link. UM users only.
HeinOnline
Select U.S. Statutes at Large from the list of collections. Easier to browse volumes than LexisNexis Congressional.
CQ Almanac
CQ Almanac contains unbiased, objective and comprehensive summaries of all Capitol Hill activity from 1945-2020. This is a good place to go for the "story" of how the bill became a law.
Statutes at Large (Library Catalog Record)
Information on how to read the print or microfilm versions
United States Code (Library Catalog Record)
Information on how to access the print US code

	1).Slip Law (like a pamphlet)
	2).At the end of each session, slip laws are compiled and bound in the order they passed in the Statutes at Large (also known as the Session Laws)
	3).Eventually the statutes get organized by subject in the U.S. Code.