Federal Research
Federal Legislation
Public laws affecting federal statutes have different available documents, including: published reports, abstracts of hearings, congressional debates, and committee prints or studies, in addition to secondary source documents, such as presidential papers and published articles on a bill's legislative consideration. The era, such as the late 18th Century, all of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and more currently now in the 21st Century, will also dictate the availability and location of relevant documents. In addition, public laws may have a history replete with competitor and predecessor United States Senate bills and United States House of Representatives bills that were unsuccessful, along with their surviving reports, hearings, and debates that are crucial to understanding the development of the federal law enacted. Generally, there are volumes of material available on any public law. Our expertise is the capacity to cull through the thousands of pages, excerpting that which is relevant to your focus of interest. We provide our Legislative History Report and Analysis of the history of the public law as well as the development of the language of focus. Our report is accompanied by a declaration and the documents.
For a more expansive discussion of our approach to federal research see our article on "Successful Federal Legislative History Research."
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Federal Regulations
Legislative Intent Service, Inc. will research any federal regulation, providing our Legislative History Report and Analysis as well as the documents, listed in our declaration. Our CFR Part I report provides excerpts from all relevant Federal Registers in the history of the regulation. Our CFR Part II report provides rulemaking file materials.
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