Senator Kyl is often contacted by constituents interested in tracking legislation and getting copies of current bills and laws. Most of this material is available on the Internet. You should find these links helpful.
If the legislative process is new to you (or even if you are familiar with it but need a refresher), you may enjoy these articles:
Learning About the Legislative Process, a collection of reference material on the U.S. Senate web site. Includes the Riddicks Book, "Enactment of a Law, Guide to Senate Legislative Processes" (Congressional Research Service, Feb. 2002), Nominations, Treaties, and Filibuster and Cloture.
Tying It All Together: A summary explanation of how the legislative process works provided by the House of Representatives.How Our Laws Are Made, Revised and Updated by Charles W. Johnson, Parliamentarian, United States House of Representatives.
The Library of Congress web site "Thomas" has a quick search from its home page for the text of bills from the current Congress. This information is searchable by bill number, but if you don't know the bill number, you can also do a text search.
If you would like know the status of a bill you can use the "Bill Status & Summary" service on Thomas. This search will give you: the bill titles, bill status, committees with jurisdiction over the bill, related House committees, documents, amendments, related bill details, and cosponsors. It will also provide a summary.
You can search this data by word or phrase, subject, bill/amendment number, stage in legislative process, date of introduction, sponsor/cosponsor, or committee.
These reports provide Senate "Roll Call Vote" results for the current and several previous Congresses, including votes taken today. Roll call vote results are compiled through the Senate Legislative Information System by the Senate Bill Clerk, under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
A bill is proposed legislation being considered in Congress. A law is a bill that has been approved by Congress and signed by the President. You can browse through all public laws in law number sequence. The United States Government Printing Office allows you to search for public laws using words or phrases.
The US Code is also available online and searchable by word or phrase.
The gateway to statistics from over 100 federal agencies
State Legislative Information
This database from the National Conference of State Legislators contains information gleaned from the home pages and websites of the 50 state legislatures, the District of Columbia, and the Territories.The FirstGov Reference Shelf has links to information on national libraries, U.S. laws, bills in Congress, regulations, statistical information, government publications and more.
Executive Orders are available on the National Archives and Records Administration website.
In addition to the material already mentioned here, the Library of Congress Thomas web site also provides access to:
Another excellent resource is the Government Printing Office web site.