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United States Congress (1774—)

See biography. The United States Congress is the legislature of the United States federal government. It is bicameral, comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives has 435 voting members (plus non-voting delegates), each representing a congressional district and serving a two-year term. House seats are apportioned among the states on the basis of population. Each state has two Senators, regardless of population. There are 100 senators, serving staggered six-year terms. Every two years, approximately 1/3 of the Senate is elected. Both Senators and Representatives are chosen through direct election.

Contents 1 Pre-federal 2 Acts of Congress 2.1 Collections 2.2 Statutes at-large 2.3 Unpassed legislation 2.4 Congressional Hearings and Committee Reports 2.5 Resolutions 2.6 Congressional Letters 3 Constitutional provisions 4 Congressional biographies

[edit] Pre-federal

• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (1774)
• Articles of Capitulation (18 October 1781)
• The Northwest Ordinance(13 July 1787)

[edit] Acts of Congress

[edit] Collections

• United States Statutes at Large, a compendium of all Acts of Congress.
• United States Code, the codification of most Acts.

[edit] Statutes at-large

• Acts of the 1st United States Congress

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• Acts of the 109th United States Congress
• Acts of the 110th United States Congress
• Acts of the 111th United States Congress

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• An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administrating certain oaths (1789)
• Patent Act of 1790
• Militia Act of 1792
• Enabling act for Ohio 1802 (30 April 1802)
• Enabling Act (Louisiana) (1811)
• Admission of the State of Louisiana (1812)
• An Act to enlarge the limits of the State of Louisiana (1812)
• Indian Removal Act (1830)
• An act to enable the people of Wisconsin territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union (1846)
• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
• Second Confiscation Act (17 July 1862)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Morrill Act (1862)
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
• Dawes Act (1887)
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (July 2 1890)
• Utah Enabling Act, 1894
• Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898)
• Platt Amendment(1903)
• Sumners Courts Act(June 29, 1940)
• Lend Lease Act, 11 March 1941
• United States Flag Code (1942)
• Public Law 78-482 - Creating the ranks of Fleet Admiral and General of the Army (1944)
• Vandenberg resolution (1948)
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Public Law 94-479 - Promotion of George Washington to General of the Armies, effective July 4, 1976 (H.J. Res. 519)
• Federal Power Act (1978)
• Taiwan Relations Act (1979)
• Intelligence Identities Protection Act (1982)
• Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal (1983)
• Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Archives and Records Center (1984)
• Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985
• Fair Credit Billing Act (1986)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (1989)
• Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992
• Public Law 103-150 - Apology Bill of 1993 (November 23, 1993)
• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (1994)
• Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994)
• Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (October 26, 1995)
• Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996
• Public Law 106-165 - Women's Business Centers Sustainability Act of 1999
• Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act (September 2000)
• USA PATRIOT Act - Public Law 107-56 (October, 2001)
• Public Law 107-50 - Small Business Technology Transfer Program Reauthorization Act of 2001
• Public Law 107-299 - National Sea Grant College Program Act Amendments of 2002
• Public Law 107-338 - Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail Study Act of 2002
• Public Law 108-27 - Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (May 23, 2003)
• Public Law 108-101 - Congressional Gold Medal to Jackie Robinson (October 29, 2003)
• Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003
• Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004

[edit] Unpassed legislation

• Annexation Bill of 1866
• American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003
• Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (November 5, 2003)
• HR 2601 Section 1115 (2005)

[edit] Congressional Hearings and Committee Reports

• Committee on the Judiciary 109th Congress Oversight Report (Jan. 26, 2005)
• The Need to Protect the IRS from Powerful Taxpayers (1998)
• Current Crisis in South Africa Bishop Desmond Tutu's testimony before U.S. Congress (1984)
• United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church (1978)
• The Effects of Religious Cults on the Health and Welfare of Their Converts (1977)
• Nathaniel Weyl testimony corroborating Alger Hiss as member of CPUSA secret apparatus (1953)

[edit] Resolutions

• H.J. RES 192 (1933)
• H.J. RES 1145 - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• US Senate Resolution 352 (2006)

[edit] Congressional Letters

• Letter from Congress regarding Downing Street memo (May 5, 2005)

[edit] Constitutional provisions

• United States Bill of Rights

[edit] Congressional biographies

As published in the Congressional Biographical Directory

• Tom Lantos Congressional Bio
• Leo Joseph Ryan Congressional Bio
• Donald Fraser Congressional Bio
• John Kerry Congressional Bio

Some works by this author are in the public domain because they are works of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).