But for now, we will discuss how laws come into being and are distributed in the government documents system. Bills are the usual form in which legislation is proposed. Though thousands of bills are introduced each session of Congress, only a few become law. Joint resolutions are basically the same as bills but are usually used only for constitutional amendments and money matters. If vetoed by the President, a two-thirds majority of each chamber is needed to override.
Bills can be either public or private.
Private bills become private laws which affect only certain citizens or organizations and are printed separately in Statutes at Large from public laws which affect the general public. Statutes at Large is a record of laws passed arranged in the order of their passage for each Congress. Later the laws are organized by subject into the U.S. Code . Since some laws cover a number of subjects, they are often broken up into different sections of the Code. If you need to know about all the laws that cover a particular subject, the U.S. Code is a good place to look.