Encyclopedia of American Law

United States Code Directory: 54 Titles of Positive Statutory Law

United States Legislative Subject Terms

A

• Abortion
• Academic performance and assessments
• Accidents
• Accounting and auditing
• Administrative law and regulatory procedures
• Administrative remedies
• Adoption and foster care
• Adult day care
• Adult education and literacy
• Advanced technology and technological innovations
• Advisory bodies
• Age discrimination
• Aging
• Agricultural conservation and pollution
• Agricultural education
• Agricultural equipment and machinery
• Agricultural insurance
• Agricultural marketing and promotion
• Agricultural practices and innovations
• Agricultural prices, subsidies, and credit
• Agricultural research
• Agricultural trade
• Air quality
• Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
• Alcoholic beverages
• Allergies
• Alliances
• Allied health services
• Alternative and renewable resources
• Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, and arbitration
• Alternative treatments
• Animal and plant health
• Animal protection and human-animal relationships
• Appropriations
• Aquaculture
• Aquatic ecology
• Arab-Israeli relations
• Archaeology and anthropology
• Architecture
• Area studies and international education
• Arms control and nonproliferation
• Art, artists, and authorship
• Assault and harassment offenses
• Astronomy
• Athletes
• Atmospheric science and weather
• Aviation and airports

B

• Bank accounts, deposits, and capital
• Banking and financial institutions regulation
• Bankruptcy
• Behavioral sciences
• Biological and life sciences
• Birds
• Birth defects
• Blood and blood diseases
• Books and print media
• Border security and unlawful immigration
• Broadcasting, cable, and digital technologies
• Budget deficits and national debt
• Budget process
• Building construction
• Business education
• Business ethics
• Business expenses
• Business investment and capital
• Business records
• Buy American requirements

C

• Cancer
• Capital gains tax
• Cardiovascular and respiratory health
• Cell biology and embryology
• Cemeteries and funerals
• Census and government statistics
• Charitable contributions
• Chemical and biological weapons
• Chemistry
• Child care and development
• Child health
• Child safety and welfare
• Citizenship and naturalization
• Civics education
• Civil actions and liability
• Civil disturbances
• Climate change and greenhouse gases
• Coal
• Coast Guard
• Collective security
• Commemorative events and holidays
• Commodities markets
• Community life and organization
• Commuting
• Competition and antitrust
• Competitiveness, trade promotion, and trade deficits
• Comprehensive health care
• Computer security and identity theft
• Computers and information technology
• Conflicts and wars
• Congressional agencies
• Congressional committees
• Congressional districts and representation
• Congressional elections
• Congressional leadership
• Congressional officers and employees
• Congressional operations and organization
• Congressional oversight
• Congressional tributes
• Congressional-executive branch relations
• Constitution and constitutional amendments
• Consumer affairs
• Consumer credit
• Contracts and agency
• Cooperative and condominium housing
• Corporate finance and management
• Correctional facilities and imprisonment
• Cosmetics and personal care
• Credit and credit markets
• Crime prevention
• Crime victims
• Crimes against animals and natural resources
• Crimes against children
• Crimes against property
• Crimes against women
• Criminal investigation, prosecution, and interrogation
• Criminal justice information and records
• Criminal procedure and sentencing
• Cultural exchanges and relations
• Currency
• Customs enforcement

D

• Dams and canals
• Data collection, sharing, and protection
• Debt collection
• Defense spending
• Dental care
• Detention of persons
• Digestive and metabolic diseases
• Digital media
• Diplomacy, foreign officials, and Americans abroad
• Disability and health-based discrimination
• Disability and paralysis
• Disability assistance
• Disaster relief and insurance
• Domestic violence and child abuse
• Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
• Drug therapy
• Drug trafficking and controlled substances
• Drug, alcohol, and tobacco use
• Due process and equal protection

E

• Earth sciences
• Ecology
• Economic development
• Economic performance and conditions
• Economic theory
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Education programs funding
• Educational facilities and institutions
• Educational guidance
• Educational technology and distance education
• Elections, voting, and political campaign regulation
• Electric power generation and transmission
• Elementary and secondary education
• Emergency communications systems
• Emergency medical services and trauma care
• Emergency planning and evacuation
• Employee benefits and pensions
• Employee hiring
• Employee leave
• Employee performance
• Employment and training programs
• Employment discrimination and employee rights
• Employment taxes
• Endangered and threatened species
• Energy assistance for the poor and aged
• Energy efficiency and conservation
• Energy prices
• Energy research
• Energy revenues and royalties
• Energy storage, supplies, and demand
• Environmental assessment, monitoring, and research
• Environmental education
• Environmental health
• Environmental regulatory procedures
• Environmental technology
• Espionage and treason
• Ethnic studies
• Evidence and witnesses
• Executive agency funding and structure

F

• Family planning and birth control
• Family relationships
• Family services
• Farmland
• Federal appellate courts
• Federal district courts
• Federal officials
• Federal preemption
• Federal-Indian relations
• Federally chartered organizations
• Financial crises and stabilization
• Financial literacy
• Financial services and investments
• Firearms and explosives
• Fires
• First Amendment rights
• First responders and emergency personnel
• Fishes
• Floods and storm protection
• Food assistance and relief
• Food industry and services
• Food supply, safety, and labeling
• Foreign aid and international relief
• Foreign and international banking
• Foreign and international corporations
• Foreign labor
• Foreign language and bilingual programs
• Foreign loans and debt
• Foreign property
• Forests, forestry, and trees
• Fraud offenses and financial crimes
• Free trade and trade barriers
• Freedom of information
• Fruit and vegetables

G

• Gambling
• Games and hobbies
• General agriculture matters
• General business and commerce matters
• General education matters
• General energy matters
• General foreign operations matters
• General health and health care finance matters
• General Native American affairs matters
• General public lands matters
• General science and technology matters
• General taxation matters
• Genetics
• Geography and mapping
• Government buildings, facilities, and property
• Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
• Government employee pay, benefits, and personnel management
• Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
• Government information and archives
• Government lending and loan guarantees
• Government liability
• Government studies and investigations
• Government trust funds
• Grain

H

• HIV/AIDS
• Hate crimes
• Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
• Health care costs and insurance
• Health care coverage and access
• Health care quality
• Health facilities and institutions
• Health information and medical records
• Health personnel
• Health programs administration and funding
• Health promotion and preventive care
• Health technology, devices, and supplies
• Hearing, speech, and vision care
• Hereditary and developmental disorders
• Higher education
• Historic sites and heritage areas
• Historical and cultural resources
• Home and outpatient care
• Homeland security
• Homelessness and emergency shelter
• Horticulture and plants
• Hospital care
• House of Representatives
• Housing and community development funding
• Housing discrimination
• Housing finance and home ownership
• Housing for the elderly and disabled
• Housing industry and standards
• Housing supply and affordability
• Human rights
• Human trafficking
• Humanities programs funding
• Hunting and fishing
• Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
• Hydrology and hydrography

I

• Immigrant health and welfare
• Immigration status and procedures
• Immunology and vaccination
• Income tax credits
• Income tax deductions
• Income tax deferral
• Income tax exclusion
• Income tax rates
• Indian claims
• Indian lands and resources rights
• Indian social and development programs
• Industrial facilities
• Industrial policy and productivity
• Infectious and parasitic diseases
• Inflation and prices
• Infrastructure development
• Insects
• Insurance industry and regulation
• Intellectual property
• Intelligence activities, surveillance, and classified information
• Interest, dividends, and interest rates
• Intergovernmental relations
• International exchange and broadcasting
• International law and treaties
• International monetary system and foreign exchange
• International organizations and cooperation
• International scientific cooperation
• Internet, web applications, and social media

J

• Judges
• Judicial procedure and administration
• Judicial review and appeals
• Jurisdiction and venue
• Juvenile crime and gang violence

L

• Labor market
• Labor standards
• Labor-management relations
• Lakes and rivers
• Land transfers
• Land use and conservation
• Landlord and tenant
• Language arts
• Law enforcement administration and funding
• Law enforcement officers
• Lawyers and legal services
• Lease and rental services
• Legal fees and court costs
• Legislative rules and procedure
• Libraries and archives
• Licensing and registrations
• Life, casualty, and property insurance
• Lighting, heating, and cooling
• Literature
• Livestock
• Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
• Low- and moderate-income housing

M

• Mammals
• Manufacturing
• Marine and coastal resources and fisheries
• Marine and inland water transportation
• Marine pollution
• Marketing and advertising
• Marriage and family status
• Materials
• Meat
• Medicaid
• Medical education
• Medical ethics
• Medical research
• Medical tests and diagnostic methods
• Medicare
• Members of Congress
• Mental health
• Metals
• Migrant, seasonal, and agricultural labor
• Military assistance, sales, and agreements
• Military civil functions
• Military command and structure
• Military education and training
• Military facilities and property
• Military history
• Military law
• Military medicine
• Military operations and strategy
• Military personnel and dependents
• Military procurement, research, and weapons development
• Military readiness
• Militias and paramilitary groups
• Mining
• Minority and disadvantaged businesses
• Minority education
• Minority employment
• Minority health
• Missing persons
• Monetary policy
• Monuments and memorials
• Motor carriers
• Motor fuels
• Motor vehicles
• Multilateral development programs
• Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
• Museums, exhibitions, and cultural centers
• Music

N

• Named Entities — Geographic
• Named Entities — Organizations
• National and community service
• National Guard and reserves
• National symbols
• Natural disasters
• Navigation, waterways, and harbors
• Neurological disorders
• News media and reporting
• Noise pollution
• Normal trade relations and most-favored-nation treatment
• Nuclear power
• Nuclear weapons
• Nursing
• Nutrition and diet

O

• Oil and gas
• Olympic games
• Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
• Organized crime
• Outdoor recreation

P

• Palestinians
• Parks, recreation areas, trails
• Pedestrians and bicycling
• Performance measurement
• Performing arts
• Personnel records
• Pest management
• Photography and imaging
• Physical fitness and lifestyle
• Pipelines
• Policy sciences
• Political advertising
• Political movements and philosophies
• Political parties and affiliation
• Political representation
• Pollution liability
• Pornography
• Postal service
• Poverty and welfare assistance
• Preschool education
• Prescription drugs
• Presidential administrations
• Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
• Private legislation
• Product development and innovation
• Product safety and quality
• Professional sports
• Property rights
• Property tax
• Protection of officials
• Protest and dissent
• Public contracts and procurement
• Public housing
• Public participation and lobbying
• Public transit
• Public utilities and utility rates
• Public-private cooperation

R

• Racial and ethnic relations
• Radiation
• Radio spectrum allocation
• Radioactive wastes and releases
• Railroads
• Real estate business
• Reconstruction and stabilization
• Refugees, asylum, and displaced persons
• Regional and metropolitan planning
• Religion
• Reptiles
• Research administration and funding
• Research and development
• Research ethics
• Residential rehabilitation and home repair
• Retail and wholesale trades
• Right of privacy
• Roads and highways
• Rule of law and government transparency
• Rural conditions and development

S

• Sales and excise taxes
• Sanctions
• School administration
• School athletics
• Science and engineering education
• Scientific communication
• Seafood
• Seashores and lakeshores
• Securities
• Self-employed
• Senate
• Separation, divorce, custody, and support
• Service animals
• Service industries
• Sex and reproductive health
• Sex offenses
• Sex, gender, and sexual orientation discrimination
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Small business
• Small towns
• Smuggling and trafficking
• Social security and elderly assistance
• Social work, volunteer service, and charitable organizations
• Soil pollution
• Solid waste and recycling
• Sound recording
• Sovereignty, recognition, national governance, and status
• Space flight and exploration
• Spacecraft and satellites
• Special education
• Specialized courts
• Sports and recreation facilities
• State and local courts
• State and local finance
• State and local government operations
• State and local taxation
• Strategic materials and reserves
• Student aid and college costs
• Student records
• Subversive activities
• Supply chain
• Supreme Court
• Surgery and anesthesia

T

• Tariffs
• Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
• Tax reform and tax simplification
• Tax treatment of families
• Tax-exempt organizations
• Taxation of foreign income
• Teaching, teachers, and curricula
• Technology assessment
• Technology transfer and commercialization
• Teenage pregnancy
• Telecommunication rates and fees
• Telephone and wireless communication
• Television and film
• Temporary and part-time employment
• Terrorism
• Time and calendar
• Trade adjustment assistance
• Trade agreements and negotiations
• Trade restrictions
• Trade secrets and economic espionage
• Transfer and inheritance taxes
• Transportation costs
• Transportation employees
• Transportation programs funding
• Transportation safety and security
• Travel and tourism

U

• U.S. and foreign investments
• U.S. Capitol
• U.S. history
• U.S. territories and protectorates
• Unemployment
• Urban and suburban affairs and development
• User charges and fees

V

• Veterans’ education, employment, and rehabilitation
• Veterans’ loans, housing, and homeless programs
• Veterans’ medical care
• Veterans’ organizations and recognition
• Veterans’ pensions and compensation
• Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
• Violent crime
• Visas and passports
• Vocational and technical education
• Voting rights

W

• Wages and earnings
• War and emergency powers
• War crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity
• Water quality
• Water resources funding
• Water storage
• Water use and supply
• Watersheds
• Wetlands
• White-collar crime
• Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, and habitats
• Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
• Women in business
• Women’s education
• Women’s employment
• Women’s health
• Women’s rights
• Worker safety and health
• World health
• World history

Y

• Youth employment and child labor