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Sources for legal research include:
- congressional calendars and the Congressional Record
- Federal bills, public laws, statutes and code
- congressional hearings and reports
- regulations promulgated by Federal departments and agencies
- Federal court decisions and opinions and administrative rulings
- presidential papers, proclamations and directives
- treaties and international agreements.
Sources for social science research include:
- agency bibliographies, GPO subject bibliographies and other lists of publications
- agency research journals, newsletters and bulletins
- agency planning, research and annual reports
- agency-prepared handbooks, manuals and guides
- census materials and agency statistics
- area handbooks and fact books on foreign countries
- Constitutional Convention documents (proceedings, hearings, propositions, reports)
- Legislative bills, Assembly and Senate documents and journals, commission and committee reports, appropriations and other budget information
- Governors' public papers (annual messages to the Legislature, inaugural messages, executive orders, appointments) and executive budgets
- Executive agency annual reports and statistical and topical reports, histories of agencies, bulletins, newsletters, and periodicals
- Decisions, opinions, and rulings of administrative agencies.