The most comprehensive source for federal legislative history citations available, the CIS LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES ANNUAL coveres every significant law enacted during the year. For each law, it provides: *an easy to read summary of the law's major provisions, *citations to every key publication in the law's history, *full bibliographic data for these publications, *citations to previous as well as current Congresses. Laws can be quickly located by either the index by subjects & names or index by bill numbers.

Entries describe approximately 255 legislative histories compiled during the 37th Congress in 1862 through the 101st Congress, second session, in 1990. Actual public laws covered begin with the 4th Congress, first session, 1796.