Using Search Terms & Facets from Congress.gov
How to do a search on Congress.gov and refine the results with the facets
Congress.gov
Congress.gov makes federal United States legislative information freely available to the public. Launched Sept. 19, 2012, this version of the site is created as a successor to THOMAS.gov, the former public site for legislative information. The Congress.gov site contains legislation from 1973 the to the present, member of Congress profiles, Committe Reports, and more. Dates of coverage are listed for other legislative documents.
Browse the U.S. Code The Code is the laws of the U.S. when they are published for the second time, organized by titles such as Title 38 Veteran's benefits and Title 20 Education. The Code is legislation integrated with other legislation on relevant subjects. This version of the law is sometimes referred to as "consolidated law". It is divided by title, chapter, and section numbers.
US Code Classification Tables
" These tables show where recently enacted laws will appear in the United States Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws. The tables sorted in Public Law order may be used to identify the sections of the Code affected by a particular law. The tables sorted in Code order may be used to determine whether a particular section of the Code has recently been amended. The tables only include those provisions of law that have been classified to the Code. The text of recently enacted laws may be found through the Library of Congress Thomas web site."
Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
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Includes US Code; US Congressional documents; US federal agency documents, decisions and appeals; US federal legislative history; US statutes at large; writings of the US Attorney General; law review journals; history of international law and more.