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Online, searchable versions of the U.S.C. are available from a variety of sources:, FDsys; Office of the Law Revision Counsel (House of Representatives), Cornell University Law School, http://www.drew. edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=10805. The Electronic Version and the Cornell University Law School site are easy to navigate and browse.
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Prior to being published in bound volumes, public and private laws are issued individually as slip laws. The library currently receives hard copies of slip laws. GPO Access FDsyshttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/statutes/index.html provides access to the recently passed slip laws, within a few days of enactment, as well as archived laws from the 103rd Congress onward. Searching by public law number, or by keyword, is available. Boolean operators can be used, but must be capitalized. The adjacent operator must also be capitalized: ADJ. Quotation marks ("") are needed for phrases104th Congress onward. The first seventeen volumes of the Statutes at Large, covering the laws of the first 43 Congresses, 1789-1875 can be accessed at the Library of Congress American Memory Project - Statutes at Large.
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