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GovInfo (Government Publishing Office)

• Bills from 1993-present. Includes joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, simple resolutions, and various versions of bills as they get amended, considered, agreed to, etc.
• Public and Private Laws (Slip Laws) 1995-present
• Statutes at Large 1951-present
• Statute Compilations (public laws that either do not appear in the U.S. Code or that have been classified to a title of the U.S. Code that has not been enacted into positive law)

Congress.gov

• Information and full text for bills 1993-present
• Congressional Record 1995-present

GovTrack.us 

• Unofficial website for tracking bills, providing legislative information and statistics 

U.S. Code

• The United States Code is the general and permanent laws enacted by Congress through laws passed by the Legislature. Laws that are not permanent in nature or only affect specific individuals or small groups, regulations, treaties, case law, state law, and local law do not appear in this Code.
• Current U.S. Code provided by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel
• Codes from 2018-2009 from govinfo.gov
• Popular Name Tool: search for codes by popular names (e.g. Affordable Care Act)

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Annual Edition

• Official rules and procedures created by executive and administrative agencies to implement the laws passed by Congress.The rulemaking process for regulations is governed by the procedures in the Administrative Procedures Act and supervised by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA).
• Proposed regulations and amendments must be published in the Federal Register (official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents). 
  • Official Federal Register 1936-current
  • Unofficial Federal Register 1994-current

Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)

• Unofficial, editorial compilation of CFR material and Federal Register amendments.
• Updated daily

CFR Affected List (LSA)

• Proposed, new, and amended Federal regulations that have been published in the Federal Register since the most recent revision date of a CFR title

Legal Information Institute

• Unofficial federal and state primary sources (codes, laws, rules of court, case opinions, Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.), and world law) and more, maintained by Cornell Law School.