9 th 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

Finding Documents

Final Thoughts