Internet Exercises 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 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 Congressional Directory
C-SPAN's online Congressional Directory.
http://capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir League of Women Voters
This site includes an extensive collection of voter-related issues and initiatives.
http://www.lwv.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home 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/ TheHill.com
This is a Capitol Hill newspaper with insightful articles on both sides of the Capitol.
http://www.hillnews.com/ Campaigns and Elections
Online magazine published by Congressional Quarterly, Inc., contains articles on congressional and other American political campaigns.
http://www.campaignline.com/ Yahoo Guide of the U.S. Congress
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Legislative_Branch/ 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
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
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
From The Library of Congress, this site includes a site guide entitled The U.S. Legislative Branch. This is a first-choice site for historical information on recent congresses. See also How Congress Makes Law - House for the House, and Enactment of a Law.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html
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 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/ 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/ 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 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/records_of_congress/repository_collections/ 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 National Conference of State Legislatures
An excellent guide through the 50 state legislatures with their 99 separate houses.
http://www.ncsl.org/ Census Redistricting Data Program - Main Page
Shows how the state legislatures do congressional redistricting once every decade after the U.S. Census is completed.
http://www.census.gov/rdo 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 | 