Federal Government: Legislative Branch

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress: 1774-Present

  "This governmental website provides brief biographies of all the men and women that have served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate."

• Congressional Directory

  The Congressional Directory provides information about members of Congress and how they can be contacted, their committee affiliations, general committee information, and information on congressional districts. Available online from the 104th Congress.

• CQ Weekly & CQ Researcher

  "The CQ Weekly provides access to the full text of all Congressional Quarterly articles published since 1983. The CQ Researcher covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more."

• C-Span

  "C-SPAN provides access to the live proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided--all without editing, commentary or analysis."

• House of Representatives

  Information about House events, hearings, roll calls, bills and resolutions currently being considered, and a link to a full text, searchable database of the U.S. Code.

• Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe

  " Congressional Universe provides an index of congressional publications from 1970 to the present, Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970 , and testimony from congressional hearings. Bills can be tracked as they move through the House and Senate, the Congressional Record and Federal Register can be searched, and information about members and committees can be located."

• Thomas

  Thomas provides comprehensive legislative information from a variety of sources. The four major areas covered by THOMAS are legislation, public laws, the Congressional record, and committee information.

• Senate

  "The Senate Home Page is used to present general information from U.S. Senate offices, as well as institutional information about the Senate, and does not offer full-text or abstract information about legislation at this time".

• United States Congress

  A one-stop Library of Congress resource page about all facets of the U.S. Congress.