Federal Legislative Information
Try searching congress.gov by keywords, like "child welfare" or addiction. The default search is for the Current Congress. You can limit your search on the left by selecting Bills, which will be relevant to your assignments.
- Congress.govOfficial website for U.S. federal legislative information. Provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. Usually updated the morning after session adjourns.
- Congress.gov: How to Find Bills by Subject and Policy AreaQuick guide to navigating Congress.gov and finding legislation by area and subject terms.
- Committee Reports of the U.S. CongressFull text of the Committee Reports that accompanied federal bills and resolutions. Can be filtered by Congress (date), Chamber of Origin, Committee, or Report Type.
- Congressional Budget OfficeNonpartisan government office that produces independent budget and economic issue analyses for use in Congressional budget-making.
- Congressional Record IndexUse this webpage like you would the index in a book to find remarks and actions by individuals, organizations, and other terms mentioned in the Congressional Record.
- U.S. Government Publishing OfficeOfficial, digital, and secure source for producing, protecting, preserving, and distributing the official publications and information products of the federal government. Look here for the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, United States Code, United States Statutes at Large, and many other federal publications.
- GovTrackIndependent website that publishes the status of federal legislation, information about your representative and senators in Congress including voting records, and original research on bills and votes. GovTrack gets its information from a variety of sources, including official government data as well as community data repositories.
- ProQuest CongressionalComprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Also includes access to legislative histories, bills by number, committee hearings and testimony, members of congress directory, and social media.
Federal Elections and Politics
- Federal Election CommissionThe Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
- OpenSecretsNonpartisan, independent and nonprofit research group that tracks money in US politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
- BallotpediaCovers local, state and federal politics. Editors strive for neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, candidates, and the influencers of politics.
- CQ Voting and Elections CollectionA database of elections data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical materials to help researchers investigate and understand voting and elections in America from 1789-present.