Federal Government Resources Research Guide: Legislative Branch

Guide includes: Indexes, Catalogs, and Databases; Frequently Requested Full-Text Documents; Statistics; and other websites.

A unique anthology of commentary and analysis on the U.S. Constitution, organized by article, section, and clause.

The Constitution of the United States of America including analysis and interpretation of the Constitution with annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States through June 29, 2010. Annotations include direct Web links to cited cases.

Text of the Constitution of the United States.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation is a source for historic volumes of the U.S. Statutes at Large (1789-1875); historical proposed legislation (1799-1873); Congressional committee reports (1833-1917); and Congressional debates.

A database of primary sources in American history, including all legislative and executive documents from the first fourteen U.S. Congresses.

A source for older government publications, including state session laws and codes.

Downloadable full-text of historical U.S. legal documents from the colonial period to the twentieth century, organized by subject.

Major congressional committee hearings and select subcommittee hearings. Registration required for access to recent content.

Browse publications by committee.

Browse and search members of the current, and immediately past, Congress.

A resource for House and Senate floor proceedings. Access the legislative schedule, a directory of committees and members, bills, votes and statistics about each session of Congress.

Official site for U.S. federal legislative information, including pending legislation, Congressional committee materials, the Congressional Record, and members of Congress. Includes content formerly available via THOMAS.

Official source for authenticated PDF copies of documents from all three branches of the Federal government, including the United States Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional committee documents, economic indicators, and more.

Database of current and historical Congressional information and documents, including committee prints, House and Senate reports, hearings, and legislative histories.

Full-text database of key publications of the United States Congress.

The Congressional Timeline, developed and maintained by The Dirksen Congressional Center, arrays more than 900 of the nation's laws on a timeline beginning with the first Congress in 1789 and continuing to Jan. 3, 2013. A second timeline "band" depicts major political events as context for Congress's law-making.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.

A compendium of resources for tracking, analysing, and compiling U.S. federal legislative information. Published by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.

Supports the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people.

Browse and search chamber, committee, and more records from Congress.

The premier source of timely news, objective facts and analysis, and coverage of elections and the politics of legislation.

A thorough resource for identifying and analysing federal campaign contributions. Published by the Center for Responsive Politics.

1994-present.

Official site for U.S. federal legislative information, including pending legislation, Congressional committee materials, the Congressional Record, and members of Congress. Includes content formerly available via THOMAS.

Free resource for identifying and tracking federal legislation by district.

Follow politics in your state legislature. Find your legislators, see how they vote and browse bills, committees and events.

Track bill, committee, and legislator activity nationwide.

Overview of the evolution of the publication now known as the Congressional Record.

1994-present.

The products in this collection were created for the sole purpose of supporting Congress in its legislative, oversight, and representational duties.

Collection includes every CRS report that’s available on Congress’s internal website CRS.gov, plus about 5,100 archived reports from the University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department CRS reports collection.

An unofficial collection of CRS reports on national security-related topics.