Library Guides: U.S. Domestic Policy Research: Understanding U.S. Policy

These are the basics.

Understanding U.S. Policy

How Laws are Made
This resource from the U.S. House of Representatives describes the path a bill takes to become a law, including the resolution process and committee involvement.
How Laws, Regulations, and Executive Orders are Made
This resource from usa.gov explains how all the different types of laws, regulations, and executive orders come to be.
The Legislative Process: Video Series
A series of videos from the Library of Congress explaining the legislative process.
The Legislative Process
This chapter explains the different roles and steps in the legislative process. It is part of American Government and Politics in the Information Age by University of Minnesota, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.