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THOMAS: U.S. Congress on the Internet
thomas.loc.gov
Pending legislation is easy to find on THOMAS, Congress's official Web site and the premier site for researching federal legislation online. Searchable by keyword, bill number or sponsor, THOMAS provides access to the full text of pending House and Senate bills, plus other legislative documents from the last 25 years. Visitors can browse through a searchable database of the Congressional Record, committee reports, legislative history, bill analysis, status reports, voting records and hearing transcripts. Includes member directories and other congressional information.
U.S. House of Representatives
www.house.gov
Internet
gateway for the House of Representatives provides access to individual
member sites, committee home pages and House leadership information.
Can view annual congressional schedule and summary of debate for
the current legislative day. Includes links to commissions and
organizations, membership directory, overview of congressional
operations, voting records, search engine and full-text hearing
transcripts.
House of Representatives – Member Offices
www.findlaw.com/10fedgov/
Legislative/House/members.html
FindLaw provides this useful list of House members' Web sites.
U.S. Senate
www.senate.gov
Official Web site of the U.S. Senate provides member directory, with contact information, links to Web pages and online contact forms; Web pages for committees and organizations; Senate rules; overview of legislative process; and floor schedule. Can search Congressional Record. Includes full-text hearing transcripts on committee Web sites, roll call votes, current Senate news and pending nominations. Virtual Reference Desk organizes information by subject, with links; provides glossary of congressional and legislative terms.
Senate – Member Offices
www.findlaw.com/10fedgov/
Legislative/Senate/members.html
FindLaw
provides this useful list of Senators' Web sites.
Architect of the Capitol
www.aoc.gov
Responsible for maintenance, operation, development, preservation of the Capitol Complex, which includes the Capitol, congressional office buildings, Library of Congress buildings, Supreme Court building, U.S. Botanic Garden, Capitol Power Plant, other facilities. Procurement Opportunities provides procurement procedures, Advance Procurement Plan, listings of business opportunities.
Congressional Budget Office
www.cbo.gov
Can search for budget estimates, view budget publications issued in the last 90 days and browse by subject area. Includes monthly budget reviews, current budget projections, current economic projections, status of discretionary appropriations, historical budget data and CBO's economic forecasting record. Can browse or search cost estimates required for each bill to show how it would affect spending or revenues over the next five years. Includes topical budget publications; timeline for budget analyses. Can subscribe to receive new document notifications by e-mail.
Congressional Directory
www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/
Visitors
can search current and past congressional directories by keyword
or browse list of documents.
Congressional Record and Other Legislative Branch Resources
www.gpoaccess.gov/
legislative.html
Operated
by the Government Printing Office, this Web site features a massive
searchable database of congressional information, from full text
of pending legislation, congressional hearings and committee reports
to the U.S. Code and the Congressional Record.
Congressional Research Service Reports and Issue Briefs
www.fpc.state.gov/c4763.htm
Contains Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs organized by year and months since 1999.
Congressional Research Service Reports
www.ncseonline.org/
NLE/CRS/index.cfm
Can
browse by name, number, title or subject reports prepared by the Congressional
Research Service for Congress on a variety of topics. CRS is a
nonpartisan research organization; its goal is to keep Congress
informed by providing it with reports. Users also can perform
advanced search on the reports.
Government Accountability Office
www.gao.gov
GAO,
the investigative arm of Congress, produces reports on pending
legislative matters, available with daily updates. Can view current
day's reports, browse entire reports database or search it by
report number, date, title, subject or agency. Includes Comptroller
General's opinions, Commercial Activities Panel report, and information
and contact form for FraudNET, which investigates allegations
of fraud and abuse of federal funds.
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
Visitors
to this Web site can search the catalog to find materials in the
world's largest library or run queries on the site's search engine.
The Web site also provides links to THOMAS and the Copyright Office.
C-SPAN
www.c-span.org
Online resource for public affairs and politics; includes live
video and audio of proceedings in House of Representatives and
Senate as well as program guide and hyperlinks to other public
affairs sites. Provides an online congressional directory
with state and alphabetical list of members of Congress and key
staff contacts, with e-mail addresses.
Legislative Source Book of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/
Contains
a variety of legislative and executive branch research tools,
including legislative histories, how-to tips, overviews, guides,
Q and As, resource lists, telephone and Web contacts, hearing
guides, overviews of executive orders, legislative status tables,
tables of congressional sessions and publications.
Project Vote Smart
www.vote-smart.org
A service of a non-profit voter education organization, Project
Vote Smart provides a wealth of information about members of Congress,
pending legislation, policy concerns and other areas. Visitors
can follow links to track bills, contact congressional representatives,
find committee information and other legislative materials. Provides
information on political candidates and elected officials, including
their background, issue positions, campaign finances, performance
evaluations and voting records.
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