9th Annual Bridge the Legal Research Gap
Researching Federal Legislative History
Bob Menanteaux
Outline Introduction Definition Making Our Laws:
Processes and Products
Starting with a Statute
Keeping It Simple Taking Your
Research to the Next Level
Finding the Documents You Require
What is a Legislative History?
Continuous Compilation
Specific Compilation
Making Our Laws: Processes and Products
Starting With a Statute
Exploiting Annotated Codes
Isolating Statutory Language
Keeping it Simple
United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
Is that enough?
Taking Your Research to the Next Level Let’s Not Work
Harder Than We Have To
Working With the Variables
Year the Legislation Passed
Subject Matter Starting From
Scratch Working With a
Librarian