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United States Statutes at Large
Have access to the definitive text of every Federal law – from the First Congress in 1789 to the act sitting on the President’s desk awaiting approval. See searchable pdf pages of the laws exactly as they were printed at the time of enactment. Quickly jump from page to page or volume to volume with more than 100 volumes, over 210,000 pages, instantly at your fingertips. Find what you’re looking for by citation, by Congress, or by official title.
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Bills & Resolutions from the
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See the full text of legislation as it progresses through each stage in the current Congress. Take advantage of Potomac Publishing Company’s® unique XML tagging which allows display of legislation in a clear, direct fashion that even provides color highlighting of changes to existing law. Retrieve pdf versions of legislation with the exact pagination and line numbering used by the Congress. Our exclusive Legislative Impact® tool will let you see how any legislation would, if enacted, change the existing law, and how it would be affected by other legislation currently introduced.
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United States Code
Have the complete text of the U.S. Code, including fully integrated recently enacted legislation, at your fingertips. Page through any part of the Code, section by section, or instantly jump to any other section referenced in the Code or in the valuable explanatory notes included. Take advantage of CFR references and a full compliment of hyperlinks for easy navigation. Links to Potomac's Text and PDF versions of the Statutes at Large are also provided, allowing users a complete integrated set of federal codified laws and the statutes that they are derived from.
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Recent Laws
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Potomac Publishing Company® has created searchable PDFs of the entire collection of the Statutes At Large.
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