Also See
Also see the Congress / Legal Research page on the Political Science Research Guide.
Government Documents Collection
The University of Oklahoma's Government Documents Collection is now in storage, but items may still be retrieved via Sooner Xpress. Contact the Government Documents Librarian, Jeffrey Wilhite, and see his research guides.
Oklahoma
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Oklahoma LegislatureSearch Oklahoma state legislation and statutes.
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Oklahoma Session LawsOklahoma Session Laws are available in the Session Law Library on HeinOnline.
Guides from the OU Law Library.
Federal
Federal Laws and Proposed Legislation
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United States Code (tends to be most up to date)Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives.
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United States Code (to 2018)HeinOnline contains the full-text of the United States Code (official version) and the Statutes at Large in PDF page image format going back to the start of these publications. This databases should be your source for locating official Acts of Congress or references to the official code.
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United States CongressOfficial site of the U.S. Congress.
Other Federal Government Publications
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Congressional Publications (also called Proquest Congressional)Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1969, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, and information about congressional members and committees, and Executive documents 1789-1932. Some full text available. See this guide for more information.
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Government Printing OfficeIndex of U.S. government documents and some technical reports.
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govinfoProvides access to information disseminated by the U.S. Government Printing Office. It provides official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
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Green BookPublished by the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. Provides background material and statistical data on the major entitlement programs and other activities within the Committee's jurisdiction. Includes a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, and poverty.
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Legislative InsightLegislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Texts available include the full text of the Public Law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.
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Session Laws LibraryContains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as governmental session laws from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Bahamas. Full text available.
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U. S. Congressional DocumentsIncludes: Congressional Record bound volume set (1873-present) as well as its three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). The Congressional Record Daily edition is also available from 1980-present. U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Congressional Hearings, Rules & Precedents, Committee Prints, Congressional Budget Office Publications, CRS Reports, Congressional Directory, Other Works Related to Congress.
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United States Documents MasterfileOver 9.5 million links to digital content, including full-text printed material, maps, photographs, illustrations, and statistical datasets.