[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
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[Pages 233-235]
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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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