Congress
Contents
Basic Sources |
- Don't know where to start? Try:
- Congressional Directory
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
Basic Sources
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- Annotated Consitution of the United States of America
- Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Provides access to member and committee information, legislative activities, congressional history, and lobbying information.
- Consitution of the United States of America
- CSPAN: Capitol Questions
- C-SPAN's compendium of answers to questions that viewers and users have asked regarding the legislative process and the workings of the federal government. Capitol Questions is divided into four categories: Congress; The House; The Senate; & Impeachment.
- GPO Access: Congressional Hearings
- This free Federal government database includes selected House and Senate hearings from 1997 to the present.
- CQ Congress Collection UM Only
- Analytical information on policy, legislative votes, and members of congress. Includes data on voting alignments, interest group ratings, and advanced key vote analysis.
- CQ Politics in America UM Only
- Profiles of all the current members of the U.S. Congress. Information includes biographical data, committee assignments, election results, votes, interest group ratings, campaign finance, partisan caucuses, and committees.
- LexisNexis Congressional UM Only
- Access to Congressional documents from 1789 to the present. Includes information about members of Congress, committees, and political news.
- Senate Virtual Reference Desk
- A clearinghouse of Senate information on the Web and guides to resources in libraries and archives.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List
- Finding aid to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from the College of Wooster Libraries.
- What Happens After a Bill Becomes a Law?
- Article from the Open House Project.
Agencies
Directories
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- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-present.
- Congressional Directory
- Information on Members of Congress, committees, congressional offices, federal agencies, and much more.
- Congressional Pictorial Directory
- Congressional Staff Directory UM Only
- Women in Congress
- Access to member profiles, historical essays, and historical data.
Legislation
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- Federal Legislation
- UM Libraries' guide to Finding Federal Legislative information
- Finding Congressional Hearings
- UM Libraries' guide to Finding Congressional Hearings
- Laws and Regulations
- UM Libraries' U.S. Government Information, Maps & GIS Services website linking to online government resources relating to Laws and Regulations.
News
Publications
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- Congressional Documents Online
- Full-text archive of selected documents of the United States Congress from the collection of the Rutgers - Camden School of Law. Hearings included in this online collection date from the 1970's to 1998.
- Congressional Record
- Official record of proceedings and debates. 1994-present. Also available through LexisNexis Congressional (UM Only), 1873-1997.
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
Note: As there is no comprehensive site for accessing CRS reports, it is recommended that users should search all of the sites below to ensure access.- Air University CRS Collection
- Department of State CRS Collection
- Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. CRS Collection
- OpenCRS
- University of North Texas CRS Collection
- U.S. Italian Embassy CRS Collection
- CRS Reports relating to Congress and its procedures
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