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Reference list entry: Government document

Congressional reports and documents

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. 1956. The Mutual Security Act. 84th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rept. 2273.

Congressional debate

Congressional Record. 1966. 89th Cong., 2d sess., vol. 112, pt. 16.

Presidential proclamations and executive orders

Reagan, Ronald. 1984. Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, Proclamation 5142. Federal Register, vol. 49, no. 2, p. 341.

[The p. is used here to distinguish the page number from the volume and issue numbers.]

Executive department document

U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. 1975. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington: Department of Commerce.

Treaties

U.S. Department of State. 1963. Nuclear Weapons Test Ban, 5 August. TIAS no. 5433. U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements, vol. 14, pt. 3.

["TIAS" indicates the treaty series.]