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Every law Congress has passed

97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.

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805 laws of the 95th Congress, 1977–1979

  1. An Act To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to extend the authorization of appropriations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 95-631 · 92 Stat. 3742 · November 10, 1978 · Original text

  2. An Act To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish an Endangered Species Interagency Committee to review certain actions to determine whether exemptions from certain requirements of that Act should be granted for such actions.

    Public Law 95-632 · 92 Stat. 3751 · November 10, 1978 · Original text

  3. Psychotropic Substances Act of 1978

    An Act To amend the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and other laws to meet obligations under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances relating to regulatory controls on the manufacture, distribution, importation, and exportation of psychotropic substances, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 95-633 · 92 Stat. 3768 · November 10, 1978 · Original text

  4. Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

    Proposed Constitutional Amendment · 92 Stat. 3795 · 1978 · Original text

  5. Joint Resolution Extending the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.

    Public Law · 92 Stat. 3799 · 1978 · Original text

By Congress

From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.