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Federal Links

Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Directory

Congressional Pictorial Directory: Very clear PDF format photos of members of Congress and state delegates, sponsored by GPO.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Democratic National Committee

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

egov – The Official Website of the President’s E-Government Initiative

Federal, State and Commercial Bill Tracking Resources – Updated

General Accountability Office

GPO Access – U.S. Government Printing Office

GPO.gov: News from Republicans in Congress

House Democratic Leadership

House Democratic Caucus

House Ethics Committee

House Republican Policy Committee

House Roll Call Votes

House Rules

Law Library of Congress and Global Legal Information Network

Legislative Branch Resources on GPO Access: Lawmaking Process | Congressional Materials | Legislative Resources and Publications | Additional Legislative Branch Resources

Library of Congress

National Republican Senatorial Committee

National Republican Congressional Committee

House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi

Office of Inspector General, U.S. House of Representatives

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives: Official Alphabetical List of Members by State

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representative: List of Standing Committees & Select Committees & Their Subcommittees

Office of the Democratic Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer

Regulations.gov

Republican National Committee

Senate Ethics Committee

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Senate Republican Conference

Senate Republican Policy Committee

Standing Rules of the Senate

THOMAS – Legislative Information on the Internet, Library of Congress

U.S. Federal Election Commission

U.S. House of Representative

U.S. House of Representatives, House Organizations, Commissions & Task Forces

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Center for Legislative Archives

U.S. Senate

U.S. Senate Committees

USA.gov: The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal [USA.gov En Español]

The White House Press Briefing Archives

Who’s Who in the Federal Government

State Links

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

Federal, State and Commercial Bill Tracking Resources – Updated

Governing.com – the resource of states and localities

Legislative History Research in North Carolina

Library of Congress Guide to State and Local Governments

National Association of State Chief Information Officers

National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL): Internet Sites of the State Legislatures

National Governors Association

National League of Cities

OMB Watch

State and Local Government on the Net

State Laws on the Internet

State Legislative History Research Guides and State Legislatures on the Web

State News (Council of State Governments)

StateLine.org: “politics and policy news, state by state”

U.S. Conference of Mayors

Political Information Resources – Advocacy, Media, NGOs

Almanac of American Politics: subscription only

America Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Washington Affairs: Links to testimony, action alerts, reports and other information.

American Civil Liberties Union: Legislative Update

Brookings Institution

Campaign Finance Institute

Cato Institute

Center for Democracy and Technology/Legislation Affecting the Internet:110th Congress

Capitol Spotlight: A Service of C-Span and and CQ: Instant Access to CQ Reporting; C-SPAN Video — Free to the Public.

Center for Democracy and Technology

C-SPAN: Congressional Guide

Congress.org

CNN Political Ticker

Cook Political Report: “independent, non partisan evaluation of U.S. elections.”

Common Cause: “founded in 1970 by John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Gardner envisioned a movement propelled by the focused and concerted grassroots lobbying activities of Common Cause members and reinforced with professional lobbying on Capitol Hill.”

Congress.org: “a service of Capitol Advantage, a private, non-partisan company that specializes in facilitating civic participation.”

Congressional Committees and Subcommittees – Links to Leadership and websites

Congressional Districts – Printable Maps

CongressLink.org – “A resource for teacher providing information about the U.S Congress”

Congress Merge: find who represents you in Congress, along with respective bios, contact info, homepage, committee membership, political profile.

Congressional Hearings on the Web: Sponsored by the Univ. of Michigan Documents Center, this site links to hearings, arranged by committee. Not updated since 2000, but many of the links remain usable.

Congress Online Project: The Congress Online Project is a two-year program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and conducted jointly by the George Washington University and the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) to examine the use of Web sites and other forms of online communications by congressional offices. The goal of the project is to improve electronic communication between Members of Congress and the public. [All of CMF’s work on information and communication technology, including that of the Congress Online Project, can now be found in the “Technology Research” section of CMF’s Web site.]

Congresspedia – “the citizen’s encyclopedia on Congress.”

Contacting Congress (& Other US Policymakers): Making Your Voice Heard by US Federal Legislators, the White House, State Legislators and Governors: A useful resource that provides information and links on how identifying your legislators, getting phone and fax numbers, where to send postal letters, getting policymaker email addresses, how to visit legislators, etc.

CQ.com: Free columns, trackers, blog entries and updates, including RSS and email alerts. [note: this is otherwise a subscription service]

C-SPAN.org

C-SPAN Congress Guide – This portal links to: Member Directory, Issues and Legislation, Contact Members, Key Votes Summary.

CapitalHearings.org (Real-time Audio of All Senate Hearings)

Digital Future Coalition

Electronic Privacy Information Center – includes a Bill Track for privacy, speech and cyber-liberties bills.

Federal, State and Commercial Bill Tracking Resources – Updated

GalleryWatch.com: “provides information management and collaborative toolsets for real-time monitoring of the federal and Texas legislative and regulatory processes via the Internet, RSS, and text messaging.” Subscription req’d.

Government Executive: “GovExec.com is government’s business news daily and the premier Web site for federal managers and executives.”

Federal Computer Week (FCW.com): “FCW.com is the essential online resource for government IT executives and delivers more breaking news and in-depth content than any other online information source in the government IT market.”

Govtrack.us – Track federal legislation: “On this site you’ll find the status of legislation, the speeches of representatives on the House and Senate floors, voting records, campaign contribution summaries, and more, plus the opinions of other users through their blog entries. And you can follow only the issues that interest you through email updates and RSS feeds.”

Guide to LexisNexis Congressional (from University of Minnesota)

Heritage Foundation

The Hill: A non-partisan, non-ideological weekly newspaper that describes the inner workings of Congress. Free weekly email newsletter available.

IQexpres – Where the Hill Meets the Web: The site lets users customize the IQExpress front page with a variety of critical policy and political links, from Congressional information, such as current floor votes, to news stories from the major media. All the most current and cutting info is here.

Internet and Online Sources of U.S. Legislative and Regulatory Information (PDF).

Inside Politics – Your Guide to National and State Politics by Darrell West of Brown University

LLSDC GPO Congressional Publications List, updated regularly.

LLSDC’s Legislative Sourcebook: Guides and resources in PDF and HTML for locating and tracking federal and state legislation. Last updated 2/18/04.

My Way News: Congress – aggregates continually updated stories from AP

National Journal: subscription req’d

National Journal, White House 2008 Rankings: The Democrats

National Journal, White House 2008 Rankings: The Democrats

New York Times: Politics (reg. req’d)

New York Times: Washington News (reg. req’d)

Opensecrets.org – Money in politics data, Center for Responsive Politics

PollingReport.com – Public Opinion Online

Project on Government Oversight

Political Information.com: a search engine for politics, policy and political news.

Politics1.com: A non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate. Includes an easy to use database of State & Congressional Candidates, State Parties, and Local News Sources.

Progressive Government – See also The President’s Appointees

Quick DC Links – Washington Essentials (Portal from TheCapital.Net): Congress, Research, Hill and Political Washington WebSites

RealClearPolitics – Since 2000 this site has published daily updates comprising aggregated links to political news, opinions, polls and commentary from a range of sources available online.

Roll Call: The newspaper of Capital Hill since 1955, includes election news, editorials, and commentary. Subscription req’d but abstracts of content available free.

SourceWatch, Center for Democracy and Policy

StateScape: Web-based state monitoring service that provides legislative and regulatory reporting for a fee. See State Capital Links and links to State Newspapers.

Spam Laws: Links to federal and state legislation, laws from the EU, and ten other countries. Updated regularly.

The Fifty States: Links to Governors & Partisan Splits, Lieutenant Governors, Attorneys General, 2005 Session Calendar.

Washington Post – Congress Votes Database: This site lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991. (reg. req’d)

Washington Post – In Congress (reg. req’d)

Washington Post – Today in Congress (reg. req’d)

Washington Post – Federal Page (reg. req’d)

Washington Post – New Faces – Election 2006 – Profiles of all members of House and Senate

Washington Post – Links to Political Opinion, Columns and Blogs (reg. req’d)

Yahoo! U.S. Congress News

Selected Political Blogs

ABC News: The Note: Agree to Disagree

beSpacific – Accurate, focused law and technology news since 2002. Emphasis on current awareness monitoring and tracking of primary resources from state and federal government, corporations, academic institutions, foundations and think tanks.

Capital Briefing (Washington Post)

CNN Political Ticker

CQPolitics.com

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Weblog

Democratic Party Blog

GOP Bloggers

The Hill’s Congress Blog

Hotline on Call – National Journal

Political Wire

Politico: “The Politico launched in January, 2007 with the mission of covering the politics of Capitol Hill and of the presidential campaign, and the business of Washington lobbying and advocacy…”

Project on Government Oversight (POGO) Blog

RealClearPolitics Blog

Talking Points Memo

Washington Monthly

Washington Wire (Wall Street Journal)

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