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U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Is it true that . . .

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

U.S. Senate: Senators Home

The Senators page on Statistics & Lists is a great resource for information about current and former Senators.

S. Doc. 107-11 - United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art

U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Virtual Reference Desk

You can access legislative information, by bill number or key words, from the THOMAS Web site .

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/b_three_sections_with_teasers/virtual.htm

Many of the books listed on senate.gov can be found at your local public library or a government depository library, or can be purchased on the Web or from a bookstore. This guide will help you get started.

U.S. Senate: Reference Home

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/g_three_sections_with_teasers/reference_home.htm

In 1913 the Seventeenth Amendment officially became a part of the U.S. Constitution, providing for the direct popular election of senators.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/art/a_three_sections_with_teasers/art_hist_home.htm

U.S. Senate: Art & History Home

The Congressional Record is published daily when either house of Congress meets.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sections_with_teasers/legislative_home.htm

U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home

U.S. Senate

Each state has its own unique place in Senate history.

The following tables cover those titles of the United States Code that have been revised in a positive law codification since adoption of the Code in 1926.

http://uscode.house.gov/tables/usctable1.htm

United States Code Table I

United States Code Table III: Years View

http://uscode.house.gov/table3/table3years.htm

The Table III Tool enables you to browse the United States Code Table III. For printing purposes, the PDF file is recommended. A detailed explanation of the Table is located here.

United States Code Table of Popular Names

What Is Positive Law Codification? Positive law codification is the process of preparing and enacting, one title at a time, a revision and restatement of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

Codification Legislation

U.S. Code Classification Tables

*Includes prior versions of the U.S. Code While every effort has been made to ensure that the Code database files available for download on this website are accurate, those using the site for legal research should verify their results against the printed version of the United States Code available through the Government Printing Office .

Download U.S. Code

Starting in 2010, the OLRC began a pilot project, called the USC prelim , to update titles of the U.S. Code on the website throughout the year as laws affecting those titles are enacted, rather than waiting until the end of the congressional session. Although these titles are also prepared from the same database used to prepare all other versions of the Code, they are posted to the website as a preliminary release.