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I’m Just a Bill

The Process

http://www.schooltube.com/video/89a42a6866404f4baab7/Im-Just-a-Bill

http://www.schooltube.com/video/89a42a6866404f4baab7/Im-Just-a-Bill

Federal Legislative History

Getting Started With the Public Law and Bill Numbers

50 U.S.C.S. § 1842(Lexis or Lexis Advance) 50 U.S.C.A. § 1842 (Westlaw or WestlawNext)

Statutes at Large (Hein)Thomas

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http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=statute/pop_U&collection=statute

http://thomas.loc.gov/

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1842


Federal Legislative History

Help from Compilers

Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories (Hein)

Legislative Histories on Proquest CongressionalLegislative Insight

Legislative Histories on the Internet

Lexis and GAO Legislative Histories on Westlaw

Catalog Thomas

http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/

http://www.conquest-leg-insight.com/legislativeinsight/LegHistMain.jsp;jsessionid=053D6852D648D54BFE29A3A0220F5B31

http://www.lexis.com/research/sel/interm?_m=b7b96296acc289c3816153982a7f122b&_cat=3001328&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkAB&_md5=c27886e5ff3dda5f50fbfbf103b865ba&combinedSources=

http://web2.westlaw.com/search/default.wl?rs=WLW9.02&ifm=NotSet&fn=_top&sv=Split&db=FED-LH&utid=1&vr=2.0&rp=/search/default.wl&mt=LawSchool

http://lawpac.colorado.edu/


Finding the Legislative Documents

Research Guide: Compiling a Federal Legislative History

Keeping Current

govtrack.usopencongress.org

http://www.govtrack.us/

http://www.opencongress.org/

How Are Legislative Histories Used?