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Which Date Each Row Carries

An executive order, a proclamation, a memorandum, a notice and a determination carry the day the President signed them, and the day the Federal Register printed them is given beside it. A public law carries the day it was approved. An agency rule carries the day it was published, and where the rule states a day it takes effect that day is given too. A signing statement carries the day it was issued. Each of those comes from the government record that prints the document.

Recorded here is a different fact from a different place: the history of this site's own files, which keeps the day each record first entered them. A chapter or a section carries instead the day the indexing itself records, which is the day it was read. The two are close together but they are not the same measurement, and no row shows one in place of the other.

What Is Not in This List

Two documents carry no date of their own to sort by: Project 2025, which prints a year and no day, and the SAVE Act, which is a bill and has not been approved. Both are on the Documents page, and the day each chapter or section of them was read is counted in the list at the top of this page.

Also left out: roll call votes, which run into the hundreds and sit with the members who cast them. Court cases that name an order, because many were filed years before this term began and the docket itself is not held here. Floor remarks from the Congressional Record. Anything a nightly job recomputes from records already listed, such as party unity or the subject grouping of votes, since arithmetic redone over the same records is not a new record.