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

Finding Documents

Final Thoughts