 You can use the database ProQuest Congressional to find the full text of a law as it was passed when you have the public law number. Beginning at the public policy in the U.S. Subject Guide, choose the tab labeled Statutory Law. Statutory Laws are the laws passed by Congress. From here, select ProQuest Congressional in the box labeled Original Federal Legislation. This is ProQuest Congressional's search by number page. There are a variety of legal numerical citations I can search by here, including Statutes at Large and the United States Code. In this case, I am looking for the original law called the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. Because I have already done my background research, I know that I am looking for Public Law 93-247. That is the law from the 93rd Congress, number 247. ProQuest Congressional retrieves 13 results on search for that public law. The first two results are from the Congressional Record. The Congressional Record is produced at the end of each day Congress' in session and summarizes the activities of the day. It does not contain the full text of the laws. The next two results all have the exact title match to the law I am looking for, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, but notice the descriptions and dates. They are both reports to committees in Congress. Most importantly, notice the date. They are both from 1973, before the law was passed. And if you read more of the descriptions, you will see that they may be very, very useful in my research about this law, but these are reports recommending the passage of this law with amendments, not the final enrolled version of the law. If we move on to result number five, here you can see Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, an exact title match. And this is described as a legislative history of the public law that I am searching for. When I click on this title, the database then shows me the summary information for the law, as well as links to all the reports, hearings, and committee prints. These hearings and prints are the same document that make up our results list. Result number six, Child Abuse and Neglect, Legislation and Issues, is a CRS report. And you can see in the description that this focuses on Public Law 93-247, and that this is also good information that will help us learn about the context of the law, but it does not contain the text of the law itself. Even though result number seven is a committee print produced for the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and the Subcommittee on Children and Youth, it actually says in both the title of the document and in the description of the document that includes the text of Public Law 93-247. I can click on the title, and then here I can click on the PDF replica of the original, and then you can see from the table of contents the text of the law begins on page seven.