LEG/EX
An interactive visualization which shows actual patterns of lawmaking in Congress, year by year.
An interactive visualization which shows actual patterns of lawmaking in Congress, year by year.
Locating laws, bills, and cases impacting policy -- State, National, International
- Congress.govSearch for US government legislation, committee reports, congressional communications, congressional record, nominations, and treaty documents
- Proquest Legislative InsightSearch the federal legislative history for digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. *Note, Legislative Insight includes only documents related to the passage of a law, so hearings, reports, bills, etc., that are not part of a legislative history are not included in this data base (see Proquest Congressional)
- Proquest CongressionalIndexes information produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress from 1789 to the present. Provides full text for many titles, generally from the early 1990's to the present.
- VoxGova discovery platform with a wealth of analytics providing fast and reliable access to unfiltered original source news, media and information direct from all branches of the U.S. Federal Government. voxgov enables users to easily find who in government is saying what and when on any subject throughout all phases of the political, legislative and regulatory process
- GovTrackTrack legislation passed in the United States
- GovInfoGovinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), providing free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
- US Congress Active LegislationView a table of active legislation and which bills have become public laws.
- Nexis UniExtensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790
- Hein OnlineSearchable database of legal periodicals; search U.S. Federal collections such as: Code of Federal Regulations, Congress & the Courts, US Attorney General Reports, Early American Case Law, US Code, etc
- Proquest Regulatory InsightRegulatory Insight contains administrative law histories organized by public law, and provides functionality similar to the functionality found in Legislative Insight. Find compilations of Federal Register notices, proposed rules, and rules representing the complete rulemaking process associated with specific Public Laws
- United States Supreme Court: Case DocumentsThe most common way to find information about a case is to review the case’s docket -- a list of all of the filings and rulings in that case, arranged in chronological order.
- Proquest Supreme Court InsightComplete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs
- LexisNexis State NetState Net is an online service providing access to state government information. It includes legislative information (status of bills, full text of bills, legislative calendars), state statutes, full text of state regulations, information about state legislators and their staffs, and news sources for information on state issues for all 50 states.
- Pennsylvania General AssemblyState legislature; includes tabs to the PA Senate & House; website contains legislation back to 1975
- Pennsylvania Legislation EnactedSearch by year, session, type, and/or act number
- Philadelphia City Council's Legislative InformationPublic access to information concerning Philadelphia City Council bills and resolutions.
- City of Philadelphia, 5-year financial planPhiladelphia's five-year financial plan / Office of the Mayor, Philadelphia
- Making Law: PennsylvaniaAn educational overview of the legislative process in Pennsylvania
- New Jersey LegislatureSearch for NJ bills
- Find Law.comSearch for Code and Statutes by State
- Nexis UniSearch for state legal cases
- Hein OnlineSearch legal periodicals and a number of state-related legal collections such as: National Survey of State Laws; State Attorney General Reports, State Statutes, State Reports, etc
- Pennsylvania Senate Library has copies of committee hearings
- To access Pennsylvania House of Representatives history, see its Archives
- GlobaLex: International Law ResearchLink pathfinder for researching international law
- The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History & DiplomacySearch a major document collection compiled by Yale Law School that focuses on diplomacy
- Hein OnlineSearch through a number of legal periodicals including collections on international law
- Eur-LexAccess to European Union law, search for regulations, EU court cases, directives, decisions, and other related documents
- United Nations Official Document SystemAn international agency setup to maintain international peace & security, protect human rights, deliver humanitarian aid, and promote sustainable development
- PAIS IndexPublic Affairs Information Service (PAIS) indexes research worldwide related to social issues. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material
- OECD iLibrarythe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) offers research about international policy.
Congressional Research Service Reports
The Congressional Research Service provides in-depth reports for the US Congress providing nonpartisan policy and legal analysis to assist with decision-making in the legislative process. Unfortunately these reports are not housed in one central space
- Congressional Research Service SearchAs of 2018, these reports are available through a search on this government website. The creation of this site ended legal requirements that prohibited CRS from making its reports publicly available. *Note, this search does not include many reports previous to 2018.
- ProQuest CongressionalSearch for CRS reports under the document type filter. This search includes reports dating back to 1916 but does not include every report.
- University of North Texas' Digital Library of CRS ReportsDigital collection of historic CRS reports
- Archive-It, Congressional Research Service ReportsWeb archive of websites hosting CRS reports compiled by the Stanford University Social Science Resource Group.