Congress

"Since 1859, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress has been the primary source for biographical information on Members of the United States Congress and Continental Congresses"

"Since 1976 the Senate Historical Office has conducted interviews with senators and staff."

Easy to understand and comprehensive information including Congressional voting records, biographical and contact information, issue positions (including a political courage test), interest group ratings, public statements, and campaign finances.

"The collections include the papers of 61 former members of congress, along with the papers of 25 political leaders, congressional staffers, and journalists."

"Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government."

"CRS serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress. It operates solely at the behest of and under the direction of Congress. Information in a CRS Report should not be relied upon for purposes other than public understanding of information that has been provided by CRS to Members of Congress in connection with CRS’s institutional role. "

"Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives."

"This public resource provides information about more than 400,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress, currently 1947-2008, along with extensive information about each bill's progress and sponsor. It is used by researchers to study legislative institutions and behavior; by policy experts to study issue attention in Congress; and even by citizens studying their family histories (the dataset provides the only digitized records of tens of thousands of private bills introduced between 1947 and 1972)."

"The Deepbills project takes the raw XML of Congressional bills (available at FDsys and Thomas) and adds additional semantic information to them inside the text."

Trexler Library is a U.S. Government Depository Library, which means that we receive physical copies of many government documents that the Government Printing Office (GPO) prints, as well as electronic resources.

Includes documentation from committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and Joint Committees

"GovTrack.us began in 2004 as a project to use technology to make the U.S. Congress more open and accessible. Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics." - see Report Cards on Congress under Legislators--Members of Congress.

Search Results for: “faith on the hill” a series of reports from Pew Research on the religious composition of Congress over the years.

"See what your representatives in Congress say and do."

"Mention “LegiStorm” to a Capitol Hill staffer and their first thought probably will be “salaries.” But LegiStorm's Pro Gov subscription provides a lot more than just salary disclosures. ...Pro Gov is LegiStorm’s subscription designed for congressional and other federal government staff. Here you’ll find a suite of information services to help you with networking, salary negotiations, staff comings and goings and knowing who’s who on Capitol Hill. For less than the price of a dozen donuts we’ve put together the ultimate staffers toolbox. "

-email registration required for free, limited access

"Since 1975, CBO has produced independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process."

"The Center conducts annual national opinion surveys of the public’s attitudes about Congress, examining how people learn about Congress and how they evaluate its effectiveness as well as how they regard their own responsibilities as citizens. "

"The primary purpose of Thirty-Thousand.org is to conduct research on, and increase awareness of, the degradation of representative democracy in the United States resulting from Congress’ longstanding practice of limiting the number of congressional districts despite the continuing growth in the nation’s population."

"CMF works internally with House and Senate offices to foster improved management practices."