 Hi, this video will walk you through how to find and understand rules and regulations of the U.S. Federal Government. Before we find rules and regulations, it will help to understand their creation and implementation. Congress creates laws, the President issues executive orders, and the Judiciary issues court orders. Each of these can cause executive branch agencies to create or modify rules and regulations. Examples of agencies include the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Interior, or the Environmental Protection Agency. When an agency creates a rule or regulation, they notify the public through the Federal Register. The Federal Register is a daily publication that includes documents for public inspection. This includes proposed rules, official notice of changes, and presidential documents. A Federal Register notice describes a rule or regulation, specifies a legal authority for the regulation, details how the public can comment on the change, and states how and when the Code of Federal Regulations will be amended. The Code of Federal Regulations organizes regulations by subject. This process takes individual regulations and groups them together, providing understanding of how regulations affect each other and allowing for enforcement. The Code of Federal Regulations spells out the authority for regulations and a source note that indicates when each section was last updated. This allows users to understand when items have been changed. The Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations are both available online at govinfo.gov. The Code of Federal Regulations is available from 1996 to present, while the Federal Register is searchable from 1994 to present. For older issues of the Federal Register, you can browse digitized issues if you know the notice date. For more information about searching by citation, check out our Gov Info Citations video. If you need help finding federal rules or regulations, remember, you can always ask a librarian. Thank you.