Provides access to federal legislative information, as well as information
about members, committees, and organization of the House of Representatives.
The information on this site is relatively current.
The U.S. Senate home page provides information from and about the members
of the Senate, Senate committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
Background information is provided describing the legislative process and
procedures. Information on the history of the Senate is also found here.
GPO Access includes federal legislation (Congressional bills, The Budget
of the United States, the Congressional Directory, the Federal
Register, and the U.S. Government Manual (Administrative handbook
of the U.S. Government).
A Library of Congress web site that allows you to search for congressional
information and also provides access to federal and state government information.
The full text of all versions of Senate and Congressional bills for the 103rd
and 104th Congress, full text of the Congressional Record, and bill
summary and status is available at this site.
This site is a section of the Congressional record index that provides
information about all bills and resolutions introduced during each session
of Congress. Each "document" is an individually retrievable unit of text,
which begins at a major heading (corresponding to the headings in caps, boldface
in the printed History of Bills) and ends at the beginning of the next major
record.
The Congressional Record Index (CRI) is a publication of the Joint Committee
on Printing, Congress of the United States. Each index entry refers to a Congressional
page number of the daily issue in the format 51234 [19JA]. Each issue of the
index has two parts: the index proper which lists individuals, organizations
and other topics mentioned in the Congressional Record, and the History of
Bills, which lists legislative actions reported in the Congressional Record.
The two parts are available online as separate databases. The CRI databases
are ASCII text.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), part of the Library of Congress,
prepares its reports for the U.S. Congress. The reports are objective assessments
of a technical nature on topics and issues in all subject areas that are
currently under consideration. The CRS mission is to support an informed
national legislature. Although not all the reports are available this
link will take you to several web sites that have these reports available
in full text.
This site which is part of the Library of Congresses "American Memory
Project" is a compendium of full text documents including public laws, hearings,
and debates. Included are such titles as "U.S. Serial Set","Congressional
Globe",
"Annals of Congress", "Elliot's Debates", "House Journal", "Senate Journal",
"Journals of the Continental Congress", and much more.
This site maintained by the Law Librarians Society of Washingaton D.C.
provides resources and links to federal legislation and information pertaining
to federal legislation.
This site maintained by the Law Librarians Society of Washington D.C. provides
resources and information on how to conduct federal legislative history research.
Comments/suggestions/questions? Email to watkins@uwosh.edu Information herein is subject to change without notice.
This page was last updated April 14, 2008.
