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| Internet Resources | ||
| United States House of Representatives | ||
| This site and the site for the U.S. Senate are the official websites for each house of the national legislature. These give detailed information on their current committees, party leaderships, formal agendas, and membership. Some history of each house is also found. ( http://www.house.gov ) | ||
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| United States Senate | ||
| This site and the United States House of Representatives are the official websites for each house of the national legislature. These give detailed information on their current committees, party leaderships, formal agendas, and membership. Some history of each house is also found. ( http://www.senate.gov ) | ||
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| Congressional Directory | ||
| C-SPAN's online Congressional Directory. ( http://www3.capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir ) | ||
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| C-SPAN | ||
| This is the home site of the Capitol Hill television station. Included are extensive public affairs and Capitol Hill links. ( http://www.c-span.org/ ) | ||
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| TheHill.com | ||
| This is a Capitol Hill newspaper with insightful articles on both sides of the Capitol. ( http://www.hillnews.com/ ) | ||
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| Campaigns and Elections | ||
| Online magazine published by Congressional Quarterly, Inc., containing articles on congressional and other American political campaigns. ( http://politicsmagazine.com/ ) | ||
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| Yahoo Guide of the U.S. Congress | ||
( http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Legislative_Branch/ ) | ||
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| The Legislative Process | ||
| This Library of Congress Internet Resource Page provides links to general descriptions of the legislative process as well as a glossary and specific descriptions of the legislative processes of the House and the Senate. ( http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/uscong.html ) | ||
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| The U.S. Constitution: Article 1 | ||
| The text of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution archived in the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. ( http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/art1.htm ) | ||
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| THOMAS – U.S. Congress on the Internet | ||
| From The Library of Congress, this site includes a guide entitled The Legislative Process. This is a first-choice site for historical information on recent congresses. ( http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html ) | ||
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| "Send the House home" | ||
| A salon salon.com article on the value of employing "web commuting" technologies in the procedures of the U.S. Congress. ( http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/05/10/virtual_congress/print.html ) | ||
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| Roll Call | ||
| The online version of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill. The site provides an insider's view of current developments within Congress. ( http://www.rollcall.com/ ) | ||
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| Congress.org – Write to Congress, the President and State Legislators | ||
| Find your representatives and be in touch with them. ( http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ ) | ||
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| Statutes at Large Home Page U.S. Congressional Documents | ||
| This site is for the law-minded among us. ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html ) | ||
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| NARA Records of Congress Congressional Collections | ||
| From the National Archives, this site features extensive historical records of Congress and its Members. ( http://www.archives.gov/legislative/index.html ) | ||
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| The Congressional Institute | ||
| A congressional staff site with a specialty of providing policy assistance to the institution. Its Capitol Hill Orientation Guide – Legislative Resources – is highly recommended for those going to the Hill for work or research. ( http://www.conginst.org ) | ||
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| National Conference of State Legislatures | ||
| An excellent guide through the 50 state legislatures with their 99 separate houses. ( http://www.ncsl.org/ ) | ||
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| Census Redistricting Data Program | ||
| Shows how the state legislatures do congressional redistricting once every decade after the U.S. Census is completed. ( http://www.census.gov/rdo ) | ||
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| Federal Government Resources on the Web-Legislative Branch | ||
| From Grace York, this site has excellent links to many other congressional websites. Their Legislative Histories [Frame Enhanced] is superb for finding official nomenclature and background information on legislative floor votes, proposed bills, and completed laws. ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedlegis.html ) | ||
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