The bulk of legal materials produced by the Federal and State governments of the United States, including the legislature, the courts, and administrative agencies, is available through a number of free databases and governmental websites.
Congressional Documents
Federal Legislative history is relatively easy to locate. We have two commercial databases, ProQuest Congressional and ProQuest Legislative Insight. Use Congressional to locate specific Federal congressional record citations and use Insight to find legislative history materials for specific enacted federal legislation.
Federal Statutes and other Official Government Publishing Office materials
The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) maintains a website called Govinfo.gov which allows you to locate official sources of Federal materials including:
If Govinfo.gov does not contain the date range you are looking for, check HeinOnline.
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