Persistent legislation

The Library of Congress adopts handles to provide persistent links to federal legislation. As FGI states, though,

Well, it is certainly nice to be able to link to legislation with a persistent link! But it would be much better if one could click to create a link rather than following a 600 word description of how to link on another page.

That’s in the nature of handles and other persistent link via redirect schemes. They are a step in the right direction, anyway. (hat tip to Slashdot)