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  Congressional Document

                           Chicago Manual 14.281-287

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  Debate

 

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           17. Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts, speaking for the Joint Resolution
      
on Nuclear Weapons Freeze and Reductions, on March 10, 1982, to the Committee
      
on Foreign Relations, SJ Res. 163, 97th Cong., 1st sess., Cong. Rec. 128, pt.
       3: 3832-34.

       Bibliography
      
US Congress. Congressional Record. 97th Cong., 1st sess., 1982. Vol. 128, pt. 3.                        

 

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           1. US Congress. Congressional Record. 1982. 97th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 128,
       pt. 3: 3832-34.

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      Report or Document

 

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           13. Select Committee on Homeland Security, Homeland Security Act of
      
2002, 107th Cong., 2d sess., 2002, HR Rep. 107-609, pt. 1, 11-12. 

       Bibliography
      
US Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security. Homeland
          
Security Act of 2002. 107th Cong., 2d sess., 2002. HR Rep. 107-609,
           pt. 1.                

 

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           3. US Congress, House, 2002, Select Committee on Homeland Security, 
       Homeland Security Act of 2002, 107th Cong., 2d sess., 2002, HR Rep. 107-609,

       pt. 1, 11-12.

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       Bill or Resolution

 

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           6. Save and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, H.R. 1599, 114th Cong.
       (2015).

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           10. Save and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, 2015, H.R. 1599, 114th
       Cong.

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 Hearing

 

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           13. Hearing before the Select Committee on Homeland Security, HR 5005,
       Homeland Security Act of 2002, day 3, 107th Cong., 2d sess., July 17, 2002,

       119-20.

       Bibliography
      
US Congress. House. Hearing before the Select Committee on Homeland Security.
           HR 5005. Homeland Security Act of 2002, day 3, 107th Cong., 2d sess.,
          
July 17,2002.

 

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           21. US Congress.House, 2002, Hearing before the Select Committee on   
       Homeland Security,
HR 5005, Homeland Security Act of 2002, day 3, 107th
      
Cong., 2d sess., July 17,
119-20.

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   Law or Statute

 

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           18. Homeland Security Acts of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135 (2012).

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       endnote:      
           9. Homeland Security Acts of 2002, Public Law 107-296, US Statutes at Large
      
f116 (2002): 2163-64, Codified at US Code 6 (2002), §§ 101 et seq.
, 2163-64.

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      Legal Case

 

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           11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, trans. Constance
Garnett.
       (Project Gutenberg, 2011), pt. 6, chap. 1, accessed September 13, 2011, 
       http://gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm.

       Bibliography
       Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated by Constance
Garnett.  
           (Project Gutenberg, 2011), pt. 6, chap. 1, accessed
September 13, 2011,
           http://gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm.

 

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           3. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2011, Crime and Punishment. translated by Constance   
       Garnett, Project Gutenberg, pt. 6, chap. 1. Accessed September 13, 2011,
       http://gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm.
   

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