So far, we have located only the codified version of the statute that answers the assigning attorney’s research task. She also asked for the un-codified version of the law. In other words, we need to find this statutory language in the session law. The Statutes at Large is a chronological arrangement of the laws passed by the U.S. Congress. However, the Statutes at Large contains only a rudimentary index for each volume. Consequently, it is better to find the session law citation by using the historical notes following the statutory section in a code than by using the index to each volume of the Statutes at Large. Once you have found the Statutes at Large citation in a code, you can look up the session law itself in the Statutes at Large.

Statutes at Large on the 4^th Floor of the Law Library. Call Numbers: AE 2.111 (Vol. 98 (1984) to the present) and GS4.111 (Vol. 1 through 97).