Topic
Detention of persons
2,381
bills on this subject
Filed across 13 Congresses, from the 107th to the 119th, and most in the 116th at 423. A subject is a heading the Library of Congress assigns to a bill, and a bill usually carries several, so these are the bills that touch this subject rather than the bills only about it.
Bills by Congress
107th to 119th
2,381
bills across every Congress on file.
Showing 1–30,
newest first.
Subjects are the headings the Library of Congress assigns to a bill, not labels written here, so the wording is theirs. Bills are listed newest first by their latest action. A bill carries several subjects, so it appears under each of them. Records come from Congress.gov.