United States Code Congressional and Administrative News 5625920 224701834 2008-07-10T01:03:42Z Eastlaw 1046972 Removed category "United States law"; Quick-adding category "United States federal law" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) [[Image:USCCAN.JPG|thumbnail|350px|Several volumes of the U.S.C.C.A.N. The red volumes on the right are the monthly pamphlets and the bound volumes on the left are some of the yearly compilations for the [[102nd United States Congress|102nd Congress]].]] The '''United States Code Congressional and Administrative News''' (U.S.C.C.A.N.) is a [[West Group]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.loc.gov/rr/law/fedstat.html |title=Federal Statutes (Law Library Reading Room: Law Library of Congress)|accessdate=2007-03-30 |format= |work=The Library of Congress (website)}}</ref> publication that collects selected Congressional and administrative materials for publication in a single resource. U.S.C.C.A.N. was first published in 1941 with the 1st Session of the [[77th United States Congress|77th Congress]] and has been published with every session of Congress since.<ref name="Jacobstein161">{{cite book |last=Jacobstein |first=J. Myron |coauthors= Roy M. Mersky, & Donald J. Dunn |title=Fundamentals of Legal Research |origyear=1977 |edition=6th Ed. |year=1994 |publisher=The Foundation Press, Inc. |location=Westbury, N.Y. |language=English |isbn=1-56662-153-4 |pages=p. 161 }}</ref> U.S.C.C.A.N. is published in monthly pamphlets that contain a cumulative subject index and cumulative ''Table of Laws Enacted'' in addition to the selected documents.<ref name="Jacobstein162">Jacobstein, p. 162</ref> The pamphlets are then reissued in bound volumes after each session of Congress concludes.<ref name="Jacobstein162" /> Among other documents, U.S.C.C.A.N. publishes the full text of new federal laws, selected committee reports from the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] and [[United States Senate|Senate]], [[signing statement]]s, presidential proclamations, [[Executive order (United States)|executive orders]], reorganization plans, President's messages, [[Code of Federal Regulations|Federal Regulations]], proposed [[constitutional amendment]]s, Federal court rules, and [[Federal Sentencing Guidelines|sentencing guidelines]] all arranged in chronological order.<ref name="Price">{{cite book |last=Price |first=Miles O. |coauthors=Harry Bitner, Shirley Raissi Bysiewicz |title=Effective Legal Research |origyear=1953 |edition=Fourth Edition |year=1979 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston, Toronto |language=English |pages=p. 543-54 }}</ref> When published in bound volumes, the legislative history documents are placed in separate volumes apart from the rest of the materials published by U.S.C.C.A.N..<ref name="Jacobstein202">Jacobstein, p. 202</ref> Prior to the [[99th United States Congress|99th Congress]], the legislative history materials in U.S.C.C.A.N. contained only a House or Senate report.<ref name="Jacobstein202" /> Since the 99th Congress (1985-86), the legislative history materials in U.S.C.C.A.N. have included the House or Senate report, the committee report, and any presidential signing statements.<ref name="Jacobstein202" /> U.S.C.C.A.N. is considered a more readily accessible source for some of these materials, like committee reports, than the originals.<ref name="Jacobstein202" /> As a result, it is required by the [[Bluebook]] as a citation source in addition to the original document.<ref name="Blubook">{{cite book |editor=Editors of the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal |title=The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation |edition=Eighteenth Edition |year=2005 |publisher=The Harvard Law Review Association |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |language=English |pages=117 |quote=Rule 13.4(a) }}</ref> ==See also== *[[United States Code]] ==References== {{reflist|2}} [[Category:Official documents of the United States]] [[Category:Legal literature]] [[Category:United States federal law]]