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US
Legislative Branch
Get information on the US House of Representatives, the US
Senate and US lawmaking.
Your
Best Bet for a great resource.
CQ.com
From Congressional Quarterly (CQ), a publisher of Congressional information.
Get congressional news. Special interest: Campaigns and Elections.
Congress.org
From Capitol Advantage, a publisher of Congressional directories. Find elected
officials and issues & legislation before Congress.
GPO
Access: Congress Part of the larger GPO Access site. Access
Congressional Publications, House or Senate Publications, Committees
of the U.S. House of Representatives, or Committees of the U.S. Senate.
Special interest: Public
Laws.
LII: United
States Code
From the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell
Law School. Get the full text of the code.
LOC:
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: 1774-1873 From the Library of Congress, part of the American
Memory Project. Access over 23,900 pages of US lawmaking records
from the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, the House and
Senate Journals, the Senate Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress,
and more.
opensecrets.org
From the Center for Responsive Politics. A non-partisan, non-profit research
group based in Washington, D.C. that specializes in the study of Congress
and particularly the role that money plays in its elections and actions.
Special interest: Issue Profiles.
Public Citizen: Congress
Watch Public Citizen is a non-profit research, lobbying and litigation
organization founded by Ralph Nader. Congress Watch is currently watching
the following issues: Campaign Finance Reform, Protecting Your Health,
Safety and the Environment, Civil Justice/Legal Rights, Tobacco Deal,
and Corporate Welfare.
USIA:
An Outline of American Government: The Legislative Branch From the United States Information Agency (USIA). Part of
the larger Outline of American Government site designed to explain
the US government to non-citizens, this portion of the virtual text book
gives an overview of the powers of Congress and the legislative process.