1. Legislative history is ____________________ .

a. a primary authority

b. a secondary authority

c. either a primary or secondary authority, depending on jurisdiction

d. None of the above

2. Which of the following are forms of pending legislation?

A. A bill in committee

B. A slip law

C. A bill under debate on the floor

A and C

3. If Congress tries and fails to override a presidential veto, the vetoed bill may not be reintroduced by a future Congress.

True

False

4. The Congressional Record is published ____________________ .

a. every day of the year

b. weekly while Congress is in session

c. after the session ends

d. None of the above

5. A good resource for legislative history is ____________________ .

a. Lexis

b. USCCAN

c. Westlaw

d. All of the above

6. Select the process or processes that might be informed by legislative history.

a. Interpreting a law

b. Debating a law

c. Amending a law

d. Codifying a law

7. US legislative history is available dating back to the ____________________ century.

a. mid 20th

b. early 20th

c. 19th

d. 18th

8. The same tools are available for state legislative history research as for federal legislative history research, with the possible exception of ____________________ .

a. online commercial databases

b. commercially compiled legislative histories in print

c. legislative libraries

d. None of the above

9. Logically, which of the following would you probably NOT review first during your legal research for a client?

a. Statutes

b. Case law

c. Digests

d. Legislative history