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Federal Legislative Information
Statutes & Legislative History
This
site is an excellent source for information on current bills,
legislative history, congressional committee reports and much more. New
bills and other legislative information are often added to this site
within a day or two.
Online
version of federal statutes published in the U.S. Code, provided
through the U.S. House of Representatives Web site. As with any primary
law source found on the Internet or anywhere else, remember to check
how current the information is. Online codes are often a year or more
out of date. Make sure you update your research accordingly. For the
U.S. Code, note the date of the code section and then use the classification tables to see if your code section has been updated during the period covered by the tables.
Includes an archive of the U.S.C. going back to inception and predecessor publications. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
Recently
enacted federal laws, including those that have not been added to the
U.S. Code yet, can be searched here. Coverage goes back through the
104th Congress (1995).
Includes all volumes of the U.S. Statutes at Large from the beginning in 1789 to within the past 2 years or so. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
This is the most comprehensive online resource we have available for finding and downloading congressional documents. Full-text documents are available in most years for House & Senate Reports (1819 - ), House & Senate Documents (1817 - ), Legislative Histories (1969 - ) and the U.S. Serial Set (1789 - 1969). The collection also includes indexes for Committee Hearings (1824 - ) and Committee Prints & Misc. Publications (1830 - ), with limited full-text available for those documents as well. If you find a reference to a document that is not available in full-text, please see one of our reference librarians for help in obtaining it through other means. Using the advanced search function allows you to search for the documents mentioned above in combination or individually. Additional areas of the collection include the full-text of U.S. Public Laws (1988 - ), U.S. Statutes at Large (1789 - ), GAO reports (2004 - ), the C.F.R. (1981 - ), the Federal Register (1980 - ) and more. There is also a section with information about members of Congress that includes voting records and identification of campaign contributors. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
The
"U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection" includes full-text
legislative histories for a small group of laws selected based on
historical significance, The "Sources of Compiled Legislative History
Database" provides citations to books, journal articles and other
sources that have compiled legislative histories for other laws.
Additional documents provide guidance on how to compile your own
legislative history. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
Coverage includes the Congressional Record and its predecessor publications containing the debates of Congress going back to the earliest volumes. Also includes the American State Papers and Journals of the Continental Congress. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
This page provides information about Congress links to free searchable databases of congressional publications.
Information About Congress and How to Contact its Members
Scroll to the bottom of this page for useful links to congressional schedules, directories and information about legislation. Provides contact information for federal and state elected officials, as well as national and local media. Includes voting records for legislation. Now affiliated with Roll Call, a newspaper covering Capitol Hill.
Contains
lots of information on U.S. federal and state elections. Includes much
information about individual elected state and federal leaders,
including biographies, voting records, special interest group
affiliations and ratings.
Federal Executive Information
Presidential Documents
Current publication of Presidential documents by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Predecessor publication of Presidential documents by NARA. Current CUNY law students and faculty can use HeinOnline's U.S. Presidential Library if older documents from 1965 - 1993 are needed.
A
collection of various historical Presidential documents, executive
orders, inauguration speeches, etc. Includes the Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents from inception to within a few months of the
current date. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
Locate
federal government agency Web sites easily using the search box or browsing the directory. A
very useful site maintained by Louisiana State University.
The
U.S. government's online version of the CFR is released here
concurrently with the print edition. Various search options are
provided to locate regulations by citation, keywords or through
browsing. The regulations must be updated following the same procedure
used for updating print editions, so be sure to check the
List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA)
and carefully follow the instructions provided there.
A
new electronic version of the Code of Federal Regulations that is more
up to date than the source immediately above on this page. Also
produced by the U.S. government, but this is NOT the official version
(yet). More information.
Includes an archive of the C.F.R. going back to inception. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
This
is the official daily publication of Federal Rules, Proposed rules,
Notices of Federal Agencies, Executive Orders and other Presidential
Documents. Older issues going back to 1994 can be searched.
Provides access to the Federal Register from its inception in 1936 to within a few months of the current date. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
A
growing collection of federal agency decisions from the Board of
Immigration Appeals, National Labor Relations Board, Federal Trade
Commission, Securities & Exchange Commission and many others. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
Documents
published by many federal agencies can be located here. If you can't
find the document you want and you know the agency that published it,
try using LSU's U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory to find the agency's Web site and see if the document is available there.
Federal Judicial Information
Information on the structure of the federal court system, publications and links to the courts.
Provided
by the Federal Judicial Center. Includes judicial biographies (back to
1789!), court information, landmark judicial legislation and more.
U.S. Supreme Court
Includes
recent opinions, orders, oral argument transcripts, court rules and
current docket information, in addition to general information about
the court.
This
is a weekly update service on developments in all areas of law from
across the United States. Previous issues are searchable back to 1997.
Links are provided to access the full text of U.S. Supreme Court and
other decisions reported in this publication. A separate link is
available to take you to the Supreme Court Today
portion of this site, which includes docket information and and search
capabilities for U.S. Supreme Court Opinions. Published by the Bureau
of National Affairs (BNA). Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
Includes
copies of U.S. Supreme Court decisions published in U.S. Reports from
1754 to within the past few years, as well as recent preliminary prints
and slip opinions. Some historical books and journals about the court
are also provided in full text. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty.
Another
source for U.S. Supreme Court information, including recent opinions,
orders, briefs, oral argument transcripts (provided only as links
within case information, if available), court rules, docket
information, filing guidelines and a court calendar.
Opinions from 1893 - present provided by FindLaw. Search for decisions by citation, party names, or full-text keyword.
LexisOne provides free access to all U.S. Supreme Court decisions going back to 1781, as well as access to most federal and state appellate decisions from the last 5 years.
An alternate source for recent U.S. Supreme Court opinions, provided by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
Hear
recordings of selected oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court,
provided by the Oyez Project at Northwestern University. Claims to have
all audio recorded from 1995 to present, and audio from selected cases
before 1995. Cases from 1955 (when the Court began recording the oral
arguments) to the present are being added on an ongoing basis.
Unfortunately, finding the recorded arguments is cumbersome and little
technical information is provided for playing them, but this is still
an interesting resource.
Other Federal Court Decisions
Search
all recent U.S. Court of Appeals opinions available on the Internet by
keywords or party names, or restrict your search to just one circuit.
Provided by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. See
their "disclaimer" for information on the coverage of the various
circuits.
Links to the opinion pages of individual federal court sites, provided by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
Federal Courts in New York
Legal Forms
Miscellaneous Government Web Sites & Documents
A great source for statistics on crime, criminals and the criminal justice system.
The
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site,
providing access to statistics produced by over 100 Federal Government
agencies.
This is the U.S. Government Printing Office's "Federal Digital System", a new site for making government publications available on the Web that will eventually replace GPOAccess. Information is being loaded into FDsys in stages during 2009, so the site is not complete yet and is currently designated as a "Public Beta" site. The homepage indicates which collections of government publications are currently searchable here. Until the transition is complete and FDsys is upgraded from beta status, the GPO Access site will continue to contain all these publications and more. See the Major Capabilities of FDsys Releases page for information on the plan for phasing in FDsys. When the transition is completed, FDsys will become the primary access point for finding and downloading GPO publications.
This has been the U.S. Government Printing Office's access point for making government publications available on the Web. GPO is now transitioning to a new site called FDsys (see link above for more information). When the transition is completed, sometime in 2009, FDsys will become the primary access point for access to U.S. government publications. Until that time, GPOAccess will continue to be updated and will remain the most complete source of access to government publications.
According to the Social Security Administration's Policy Information Site,
this is "the internal operating instructions used by SSA field
employees when processing claims for Social Security benefits. POMS is
no longer published in print form.
This is the official U.S. government information portal provided by the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Communications. The stated vision for USA.gov to make it "easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web. USA.gov also serves as the catalyst for a growing electronic government." The site features a topical directory and a search box to facilitate finding out which government agencies and Web sites may provide useful information on a particular subject. Includes links to state as well as federal government resources.
U.S. Census Bureau Publications
Huge collection of statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
