Federal Legislative Branch

A new (beta 2013) website for the U.S. Congress. Find bills, public laws, and committee reports, and search the Congressional Record.

This link now goes to the new Congress.gov website, which replaces Thomas. This site provides access to federal legislative information such as: Bills, resolutions, activities in Congress, roll call votes (and more), schedules, calendars, committee reports, etc.

An independent and nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress which evaluates federal programs, audits federal expenditures, and issues legal opinions.

Non-partisan agency of the U.S. Congress that studies the budget.

"The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Members of Congress. Some Members, as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on their web sites. This site is not affiliated with the Congressional Research Service, but aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different web sites since 1990." - UNT Digital Library

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, research library of the United States Congress, and de facto national library of the United States. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Congressional Journals, Annals, and Statutes from 1774 to 1873. It does not appear that the full text of items available only in GIF format is indexed, but the full text of HTML pages is indexed for searching.

Current Congress. One can search by party affiliation, chamber, and state. Most interesting: the listing of PAC donations.

This profile of congress is a joint collaboration of the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute.