Administration's Financial Regulatory Reform Bill, 2009 - House Bill - H.R. 4173
Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) - CBO cost est. - Republican Response
- - H.R. 3590 Sen. amdt - Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act - CBO cost est. - Minority Response
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - H.R. 1, Recovery.gov / FinancialStability.gov
Current Legislative and Regulatory Activity (PDF - issued weekly when Congress is in session - concerns banking, finance, economic policy, and federal government operations and personnel policies) (previous issue)
Directory of Federal Law Libraries in the D.C. Metropolitan Area (Library Update Form)
Drafting Federal Law by Donald Hirsch, 2d Ed., 1989, GPO, 122 p. (PDF)
- - s.a. House Legislative Counsel's Manual on Drafting Style (PDF, 1995, 1989 Manual)
Electronic Sources for Federal Legislative History Documents With Years/Congresses Available (in PDF) & ( in HTML) & Types of Legis. Docs (in PDF)
Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws, Cases, and Resources
Federal Legislative History Research: A Practitioner's Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent (PDF version)
Finding and Establishing Direct Links to THOMAS and GPO Access Documents
GPO Congressional Publication Releases (weekly lists of recently published GPO Congressional documents for sale transcribed from a twice daily recording)
Internet and Online Sources of U.S. Legislative and Regulatory Information (in PDF)
Laws, Policies & Performance Measures Relating to Federal Agency Web Sites
Laws and Links Related to General Federal Agency Operations
Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet
- - s.a. Commercial Legislative Histories of U.S. Laws on the Internet & Explanatory Notes
An Overview of the Congressional Record and Its Predecessor Publications (PDF)
Questions and Answers in Legislative and Regulatory Research (PDF version)
Quick Links to House and Senate Committee Hearings and Other Publications
- - s.a. Rutgers Digitized Hearings/Prints Coll. & LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Coll.
A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations (PDF)
- - s.a. Federal Register Pages Published Annually
Schedule of Volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set: 1970 to Current
together with An Overview of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (PDF version)
Selected Congressional Research Service Reports on Congress and Its Procedures (also has links to most all other CRS report sites on the Internet)
Selected Telephone Numbers and Web Sites With Useful Legislative Information
- - s.a. Sunlight Foundation's Tools and Web Sites for Political Transparency
Sessions of Congress With Corresponding Debate Record Volume Numbers (1789-Current) (PDF). s.a. Sessions of Congress (1789-2007) & Resumes of Congressional Activity (1947-Cur.)
Sources for the Text of Congressional Bills and Resolutions (1789 to Present)
State Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations: Web Site Links and Telephone Numbers
Union List of Legislative Documents, 1994, 3rd Edition
Union List of Legislative Histories, 2000, 7th Ed. and 2002 supp. (Info & Update Form)
United States Statutes and the United States Code: Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources
The Legislative Source Book welcomes suggested additions, corrections and updates. For suggestions please contact the Source Book's principal editor, Rick McKinney (rick.mckinney@frb.gov), Assistant Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Board Law Library, Washington, D.C. or the associate editor, Ellen Sweet (ellen.a.sweet@usdoj.gov), Legislative Reference Specialist, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Last revised on January 25, 2010.
