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Available Resources on the U.S. Congress

Contacting Congress
Ratings of Members by Special Interest Groups
Voting Records
Campaign Finance Information
Status of Current Legislation
Text of Legislation and the Congressional Record
Educational and Reference Information
Congressional Organizations
Congressional Agencies
Other Congressional Information Sources


Contacting Congress

Project Vote Smart

  • The United States Senate Home Page
  • United States House of Representatives Home Page
  • Who's Who and How To Contact Them from the US House of Representatives Home Page.
  • Cap Web An Unofficial Guide to the US Congress.
  • The Congressional Contact Web Site from Publishing Technologies.
  • C-SPAN's Congressional Directory
  • Congressional Quarterly's Congressional Directory
  • Download the Free Political Database from Alpha Software.
  • The Zipper. Find your Representative by 5-digit ZIPCODE and send "Netgrams."
  • Contacting the 104th Congress maintained by Juan Cabanela.
  • Congressional E-Mail Addresses from David W. Morgan and GeoCities.
  • Congressional E-Mail Directory by Jeffrey Hoffman.
  • Mr. Smith E-Mails Washington from InfoSearch.


    Status of Current Legislation

    Project Vote Smart

  • Bill Status (via a gopher search), Current Floor Proceedings, Recent Floor Actions, Weekly Schedule and Today's Committee Meetings from the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Search Senate Calendar of Business at GPO Access
  • Hot Legislation for the Week at THOMAS -- a service of the Library of Congress.
  • Live Picture of House Floor Proceedings and This Week's House Schedule from C-SPAN.
  • Congressional Quarterly's Status of Major Legislation.


    Text of Legislation and the Congressional Record

    Legislation

  • Search Bills of the 104th Congress / Hot Bills by Popular Title / Major Legislation by Topic at THOMAS
  • Search and View Bills of the 104th Congress at the Legi-Slate Gopher
  • Congressional Bills and Other Databases from GPO Access.
  • Will T. Bill -- Bills of the U.S. House of Representatives, a service of UniPress Software.

    The Congressional Record

  • Congressional Record of the 104th Congress / Major Topics in the Congressional Record Index (1996) on-line at THOMAS
  • Search 1995-96 Congressional Record from the Government Printing Office Gateway, online at the University of California in San Diego
  • Congressional Record of the 104th Congress via GPO Access


    Voting Records

    Data from Project Vote Smart

  • Search the Congressional Record via THOMAS or GPO Access to find complete, up-to-date Roll Call votes.
  • Congressional Quarterly's VoteWatch
  • Congressional Observer Publications.
  • 104th Congress Votes from TIME on Capitol Hill.
  • Key Votes from Politics by the Numbers.
  • House Votes of the 104th Congress and 103rd Congress from C-SPAN.
  • Votes from VIS -- Voter Information Services, Inc..


    Campaign Finance Information

    Project Vote Smart

  • 1994 Candidate FEC Campaign Finance PAC Reports from C-SPAN.
  • 1995-1996 Candidate Data from the Federal Election Commission.
  • American University Campaign Finance Site from The American University School of Communication.
  • Campaign Finance Section of Election Line.
  • The Center for Responsive Politics.
  • The Coin-Operated Congress from Mother Jones.
  • FECInfo Home Page from Software Dynamics, Inc.
  • 1995 Soft Money Contributions Breakdown.


    Ratings of Members by Special Interest Groups

    Project Vote Smart

  • Ratings from Politics by the Numbers.
  • Ratings from VIS -- Voter Information Services, Inc..
  • 1995 Ratings of Congress from the American Conservative Union.
  • Congressional Scorecard from the Christian Coalition.
  • Environmental Scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters.


    Congressional Agencies

  • General Accounting Office
  • Government Printing Office
  • Library of Congress
  • Office of Technology Assessment (operations ceased 9/29/95)
  • The John C. Stennis Center For Public Service


    Congressional Organizations

  • House Democratic Caucus has information on its history, members, and task forces.
  • House Republican Conference This Web site provides a description of the Republican Plan for America's Future and Speaker Gingrich's Address to the Nation. HillSource is another site from the House Republican Conference.
  • Senate Republican Conference "The Republican Conference of the United States Senate is a descendant of the early American party caucuses that framed party policies, approved appointees, and selected candidates."
  • US House of Representatives Democratic Leadership Contains links to the Democratic Tax Plan, Information on Democratic Leaders, Current Legislation, the Democratic Caucus Home page, Press Releases, Hot Topics (e.g. budget, crime, education), Constituent Services, and other Government Online Resources.
  • U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee "The Committee provides information on legislation and promotes the Senate Democratic Agenda" by "publishing and disseminating materials on bills and issues important to the American people." Includes reports on senior issues, budget issues and welfare reform, as well as, links to various democratic leaders' home pages and legislative bulletins.
  • U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee "Combining policy analysis with innovative technology, the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee (RPC) assists Republican Senators and their staffs in all aspects of the legislative process."


    Congressional Committees

  • Standing Committees of the United States Senate from the US Senate Home Page
  • Select, Special, Other, and Joint Committees from the United States Senate Home Page
  • The U.S. House of Representatives Committee Office Web Services at the House of Representatives' Home Page.

    Information About Congressional Committees

  • Congressional Committees from the Political Playbook at Tripod , Inc.
  • House Ways and Means Committee from the Online Newshour
  • House Committee on the Judiciary
  • Senate Committee Information from the Library of Congress
  • Senate Committee Actions For Last 3 Legislative Days from the House of Representatives Gopher.
  • Search Committee Reports from Thomas.
  • House Committee Informationfrom the Library of Congress.
  • Joint Committee Information from the Library of Congress.
  • Government: Legislative Branch: Committees
  • Hearings of Congressional committees from The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library.
  • U.S. House of Representatives Committee Jurisdiction from the House of Representatives Web Server.
  • Congressional Hearings on the Web from the University of Michigan Documents Center.
  • Congressional Committee Information from the University of Michigan Documents Center.

  • Other Congressional Information Sources

  • United States House of Representatives: Web Site / Gopher / Internet Law Library
  • United States Senate: Web Site / Gopher / Anonymous FTP server

  • Library of Congress: THOMAS -- Legislative Information on the Internet
  • U.S. Government Printing Office: Congressional Information / Online Databases

  • C-SPAN: Web Site / Gopher
  • Congressional Quarterly (CQ): Web Site / Gopher
  • LEGI-SLATE: Gopher
  • Roll Call: Web Site

  • Northwestern University: Legislative Branch resources list on the American Politics Gopher
  • Florida State University : U.S. Congress Resource Guide. From Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.
  • University of Michigan Documents Center : Legislative Histories (beginning with the 103 Congress)/Congressional Information Gopher


    Vote Smart Web

    NOTE: These websites have been selected from remote sites around the world, and have been saved on this site under fair use guidelines for educational issue. They represent a sampling of political opinion and political action sites from across the political spectrum, October 1996. The presence of a site on this list in no way represents an endorsement of its political ideology or call to action. --Bruce Gronbeck