1. 9 th Annual Bridge the Legal Research Gap Researching Federal Legislative History Bob Menanteaux

2. 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

3. What is a Legislative History?  Continuous Compilation  Specific Compilation

4. Making Our Laws: Processes and Products

5. Starting With a Statute  Exploiting Annotated Codes  Isolating Statutory Language

6. Keeping it Simple  United States Code Congressional and Administrative News  Is that enough?

8. 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

9. Finding Documents

12. Final Thoughts