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Constitution of the United States
Original text of the Constitution with links to amendments.
Constitution
of the United States Annotated
Constitution and amendments annotated with references to United States
Supreme Court Cases.
United States
Code
The U. S. Code is the current, official compilation of the laws of
the United States. It is divided into 50 titles and kept current by
supplements. You may also link to another searchable version of the
Code available at the
Cornell University Legal Information Institute U.S. Code site
or you can go to the searchable version at the
U.S. House of
Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
Federal Register
Published Daily, the Federal Register contains the proposed rules
of all federal agencies. By law, any proposed rule must be published
first in the Federal Register for public scrutiny. The Federal Register
contains other government documents, such as Presidential Proclamations,
Executive Orders, and other documents required to be published by
an act of Congress.
Code of Federal
Regulations (C.F.R.)
The C.F.R. contains all the rules and regulations currently in force
for all federal agencies. The rules and regulations are as much the
law as the statutes found in the U.S. Code. The C.F.R. is also divided
into 50 titles, many, but not all, corresponding to the titles of
the U.S. Code.
Congressional Bills
Thomas, created by the Library Congress, allows searching for texts
of bills going back to the 94th Congress, and for the full text of
bills beginning with the 101st Congress. Thomas
includes a
Listing of Bills
for the 108th Congress, this Bill List provides a sequential
index of House and Senate bills by bill number. You may also search
for bills in the GPO ACCESS
Congressional
Bills Databases
Congressional
Hearings on the WEB
This site allows searching for Congressional Hearings by Committee,
by Government Agency, by Lobby Group, and by Subject. A limited
number of congressional hearings are also available via the
GPO ACCESS
site Congressional Hearings.
Congressional
Record
The Congressional Record contains a record of the debates, supposedly
verbatim but often revised, held on the floors of the United States
Senates and United States House of Representatives. It also includes
the introduction of bills, resolutions, and amendments on a Congressional
day; the text of many bills and resolutions; Presidential messages;
and other types of communication or remarks made by individual Senate
and House members.
A Guide to Presidential Documents
Search here for Executive Orders, Proclamations and other Presidential
documents.
Regulations.gov
Federal documents that are open for review in the Federal Register
may be found and reviewed here, and comments on the documents may
be submitted. The site is intended to make it easier
for the citizen to participate in the rule-making process. A citizen
can submit comments on a regulation and have the government take his
or her view into account.
U.S. Tax Code On-Line
The complete text of the U.S. Tax Code can be accessed here in a variety
of ways.
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