U.S. Federal Documents

Congressional Information

Guide to Government Publications Series

Government Internet Sites

   Congressional information is available on government agency pages and on privately published pages. 

• Bills and Resolutions
  http://thomas.loc.gov/
  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/bills/index.html  
  http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp

• Calendars of the House
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/calendars/house/browse.html
  Calendars of the Senate
  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/calendars/senate/index.html

• Center for Legislative Archives
  http://www.archives.gov/legislative/

• Clerks of the House : Office of the Clerk 1789 to present
  http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History/clerks.html

• Congressional Universe
  http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp

• Committee reports
  http://thomas.loc.gov/
  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/index.html
• http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp
  
• Congressional Budget Office
  http://www.cbo.gov/

• Congressional record
  http://thomas.loc.gov/
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecordbound/index.html
•  http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp

• Constitution
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/constquery.html

• Declaration of Independence Full Text
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/declar.html

• The Federalist Papers
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fedquery.html

• General Accounting Office
  http://www.gao.gov/
  
• Glossary Legislative terms Senate  http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/b_three_sections_with_teasers/glossary.htm

• GPO Access Resource List
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html 

• House Homepage
  http://www.house.gov/

• Journals of the House
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwhj.html

• Journals of the Senate
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsj.html

• Journals (Executive) of the Senate
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwej.html

• Laws (full text)
  http://thomas.loc.gov/
  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/index.html  
  http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp

• Laws: How our laws are made, legislative process (House)
  http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html

• Laws: How our laws are made, legislative process (Senate)
  http://thomas.loc.gov/home/enactment/enactlawtoc.html

• Legislative Branch: Library of Congress resource page
   http://thomas.loc.gov/links/

• Legislative powers of congress; a brief reference guide
  http://www.senate.gov/~rules/crs/97-434.pdf
   
• Library of Congress
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/

• National Archives and Records Administration
  http://www.nara.gov/

• Rules House    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/precedents/deschler/index.html
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/precedents/index.html
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/precedents/hinds/index.html

• Senate Homepage
  http://www.senate.gov/

• Socrates
   http://www-sul.stanford.edu/

• Technology Assessment Office
  http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/

• Thomas: legislative information on the Internet
  http://thomas.loc.gov/

• United States Code (USC)
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html

 

Last modified: June 17, 2008