    [United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 107-1]
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    [Pages 233-235]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                                TITLE I.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Chapter 2.--ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT;
                              REPEALS; SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS

           251  Sec. 112. Statutes at large; contents; admissibility in
                    evidence.
                    The Archivist of the United States shall cause to be
                compiled, edited, indexed, and published, the United States
                Statutes at Large, which shall contain all the laws and
                concurrent resolutions enacted during each regular session
                of Congress; all proclamations by the President in the
                numbered series issued since the date of the adjournment of
                the regular session of Congress next preceding; and also any
                amendments to the Constitution of the United States proposed
                or ratified pursuant to article V thereof since that date,
                together with the certificate of the Archivist of the United
                States issued in compliance with the provision contained in
                section 106b of this title. In the event of an extra session
                of Congress, the Archivist of the United States shall cause
                all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during said
                extra session to be consolidated with, and published as part
                of, the contents of the volume for the next regular session.
                The United States Statutes at Large shall be legal evidence
                of laws, concurrent resolutions, treaties, international
                agreements other than treaties, proclamations by the
                President, and proposed or ratified amendments to the
                Constitution of the United States therein contained, in all
                the courts of the United States, the several States, and the
                Territories and insular possessions of the United States.
                (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 636; Sept. 23, 1950, ch.
                1001, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 979; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 3,
                65 Stat. 710; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98-497, Title I,
                Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 2291.)

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           252  Sec. 112b. United States international agreements;
                    transmission to Congress.
                    (a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the
                Congress the text of any international agreement (including
                the text of any oral international agreement, which
                agreement shall be reduced to writing), other than a treaty,
                to which the United States is a party as soon as practicable
                after such agreement has entered into force with respect to
                the United States but in no event later than sixty days
                thereafter. However, any such agreement the immediate public
                disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President,
                be prejudicial to the national security of the United States
                shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be
                transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
                Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
                Representatives under an appropriate injunction of secrecy
                to be removed only upon due notice from the President. Any
                department or agency of the United States Government which
                enters into any international agreement on behalf of the
                United States shall transmit to the Department of State the
                text of such agreement not later than twenty days after such
                agreement has been signed.
                    (b) Not later than March 1, 1979, and at yearly
                intervals thereafter, the President shall, under his own
                signature, transmit to the Speaker of the House of
                Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
                Relations of the Senate a report with respect to each
                international agreement which, during the preceding year,
                was transmitted to the Congress after the expiration of the
                60-day period referred to in the first sentence of
                subsection (a), describing fully and completely the reasons
                for the late transmittal.
                    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
                international agreement may not be signed or otherwise
                concluded on behalf of the United States without prior
                consultation with the Secretary of State. Such consultation
                may encompass a class of agreements rather than a particular
                agreement.
                    (d) The Secretary of State shall determine for and
                within the executive branch whether an arrangement
                constitutes an international agreement within the meaning of
                this section.
                    (e) The President shall, through the Secretary of State,
                promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
                carry out this section. (Pub. L. 92-403, Sec. 1, Aug. 22,
                1972, 86 Stat. 619; Pub. L. 95-45, Sec. 5, June 15, 1977, 91
                Stat. 224; Pub. L. 95-426, Title VII, Sec. 708, Oct. 7,
                1978, 92 Stat. 993; Pub. L. 103-236, Sec. 138, Apr. 30,
                1994, 108 Stat. 397; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 1, Nov. 2, 1994,
                108 Stat. 4581.)
                 Chapter 3.--CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS;
                          DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS

           253  Sec. 211. Copies [of the Code of Laws] to Members of
                    Congress.
                    In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of
                this title there shall be printed, published, and
                distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of
                Columbia with tables, index and other ancillaries, suitably
                bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to
                distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes
                as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten
                copies of each for each

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                Member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the
                Congress in which the original authorized publication is
                made, for his use and distribution, and in addition for the
                Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
                and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of
                bound copies of each equal to ten times the number of
                members of such committees, and one bound copy of each for
                the use of each committee of the Senate and House of
                Representatives. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
           254  Sec. 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress.
                    In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at
                the beginning of the first session of each Congress, supply
                to each Senator and Representative in such Congress, who may
                in writing apply for the same, one copy each of the Code of
                Laws of the United States, the Code of Laws relating to the
                District of Columbia, and the latest supplement to each
                code: Provided, That such applicant shall certify in his
                written application for the same that the volume or volumes
                for which he applies is intended for his personal use
                exclusively: And provided further, That no Senator or
                Representative during his term of service shall receive
                under this section more than one copy each of the volumes
                enumerated herein. (July 30, 1947, Ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
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