- Guides to legislative histories, member and committee information,
and public opinion, beginning with 103rd Congress
- Links to Internet sites and lists of paper, microfiche and CD-ROM
sources
- Graphically summarizes the steps in the legislative process
- Links to public access and campus-licensed web products
- Detailed summary of legislative process from identifying a problem,
to legislation to executive branch solutions to influences on politicians
- Provides hot links to public access and campus-licensed web
sites
- Congressional District
Maps: 110th Congress (Chris Chubb)
- Choose name of state; then either pan or choose city or district
number to view
- Map displays county and city names in a district as well as the
representative
- Coloring is by political party of current office holder
- Congressional E-Mail
List,
110th Congress (UMich)
- House and Senate members with e-mail or webmail addresses
- Contacting
Congress (Juan Cabanela)
- Provides a web interface to Member
phone, fax, district office, and
e-mail address
- Committee
and
Subcommittee Assignments will provide the phone, fax,
district
office, e-mail address, and biography of individual members
- Ethnic
Majority
- Links to national and state political organizations for African
Americans, Hispanics, and Asians
- List and web links to current African American, Hispanic and Asian
members of Congress
- Congressional E-Mail
List,
109th Congress (UMich)
- House and Senate members with e-mail or webmail addresses
- Official
Congressional Directory, 109th Congress
- Index to Members of Congress, committees, staff, and
Executive Branch agencies, searchable by keyword
- Browsable by state or section
- Includes Congressional District maps, biographies, and
committee assignments
- Women
and Minorities in the 109th Congress (UMich Only)
- Lists names and numbers of blacks, Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islander,
American Indian and women members of the House and Senate
- Also includes occupation and religion in each house
- CQ Weekly Report, January 25, 2003, p. 192-193
- Similar information in the January 20, 2001 and January 31,
2005 issues
- Search the archives for "women and minorities" and quotes
- Congressional E-Mail List,
108th Congress (UMich)
- House and Senate members with e-mail or webmail addresses
- House Directory - 108th
Congress
- Lists all Representatives by state
- Provides address, phone, fax, e-mail or webmail address, and web
site
- Senate Directory - 108th
Congress
- Lists all Senators by state
- Provides address, phone, fax, e-mail or webmail address, and web
site
- Congressional Directory
- 108th and
107th Congress (UMich)
- List of Senators by state with e-mail addresses
- Compares 108th and 107th Congresses and marks new members with yellow
- Women
and Minorities in the 107th Congress (UMich Only)
- Lists names and numbers of blacks, Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islander,
American Indian and women members of the House and Senate
- Also includes occupation and religion in each house
- CQ Weekly Report, January 25, 2003, p. 192-193
- Similar information in the January 20, 2001 and January 31,
2005 issues
- Search the archives for "women and minorities" and quotes
- Seniority
- Official
Congressional Directory
- Search by keyword: "terms of service"
- See Politics in America - 2002
- Seniority in the Senate and House is the last section before the index
and applies to the 107th Congress
- Located in Documents Center as JK 1010 .P76 with older editions in
the Graduate Library stacks
- Not on the web
- Congressional
E-Mail List - 107th
Congress
- One page with all Senators and Congressmen
- Easy to print
- House of
Representatives (UMich)
- State, District, name, party, and Capitol Hill phone number
- Fax numbers, office addresses, e-mail addresses and web sites
- Senate (UMich)
- State, name, party, and Capitol Hill phone number
- Fax numbers, office addresses, e-mail addresses, and web sites
- Official
Congressional Directory - 107th Congress
- Index to Members of Congress, committees, staff, and
Executive Branch agencies, searchable by keyword
- Browsable by state or section
- Includes Congressional District maps, biographies, and
committee assignments
- Women
and Minorities in the 108th Congress (UMich Only)
- Lists names and numbers of blacks, Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islander,
American Indian and women members of the House and Senate
- Also includes occupation and religion in each house
- CQ Weekly Report, January 25, 2003, p. 192-193
- Similar information in the January 20, 2001 and January 31,
2005 issues
- Search the archives for "women and minorities" and quotes
- Congressional E-Mail
Addresses
- House and Senate e-mail addresses and web sites arranged by state
- Large file on one page but printable and downloadable
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Index to Members of Congress, committees, staff, and
Executive Branch agencies, searchable by keyword since the 104th Congress
(1995)
- Browsable by state or section since 1999
- Includes Congressional District maps
- House of
Representatives (UMich)
- State, District, name, party, and Capitol Hill phone number
- Fax numbers, office addresses, e-mail addresses and web sites
- Senate (UMich)
- State, name, party, and Capitol Hill phone number
- Fax numbers, office addresses, e-mail addresses and web sites
- University
of Michigan Congressional Directories
- Congressional E-Mail Addresses, Members of Congress, and
Committee Assignments beginning 1993
- Originally appeared on ULIBRARY Gopher
- Text format for easy downloading and redistribution
- Congressional
Directory, 105th Congress (UMich)
- Consolidated House
and
Senate
member lists
- Arranged by state and district
- Address, phone, fax, e-mail and web site for incumbents
- Congressional E-Mail Addresses, 105th
Congress,
1997/98 (UMich)
- E-mail and web sites for Representatives and Senators
- Easy to download or print for redistribution
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Index to Members of Congress, committees, staff, and
Executive Branch agencies, searchable by keyword since the 104th Congress
(1995)
- Browsable by state or section since 1997
- Includes Congressional District maps
- Congressional
Addresses, 1995/96 (UMich)
- House and
Senate
consolidated directories
- Includes district, party, address, telephone, fax, e-mail, and web site
- Keyword indexes
- Congressional Committee Assignments,
1995/96 (UMich)
- Committee and subcommittee assignments
- Congressional
E-Mail Addresses, 1995/96 (UMich)
- E-mail and web sites for Representatives and Senators
- Easy to download or print for redistribution
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Index to Members of Congress, committees, staff, and
Executive Branch agencies, searchable by keyword since the 104th Congress
(1995)
- Browsable by state or section since 1999
- Includes Congressional District maps
- Party Divisions and Control, 1789+
- Party Leaders in
Congress, 1789-2002 (CRS)
- House and Senate floor leaders, speakers, whips, conference and
caucus chairs
- Individual tables begin with various dates since 1789
- Identification includes name, state, party, and date
- United States Association of
Former Members of Congress
- Association conducts study tours and seminars on the role of Congress
in American society
- Web site lists names of members by chamber of service
- Congressional
Yellow Book (UMich Only)
- Most current directory of Congress available
- Brief biographies of Congressmen and great detail on legislative staff
assignments in Washington and in their respective districts
- Directories of committees and subcommittees with similar detail on
their legislative staffs
- Congressional YellowBook is searchable on its own or in conjunction
with the Federal, State, Municipal, Associations, and NonProfit sector
books
- Can search by location, industry, name, or personal characteristics
(job
title, degree, alma mater)
- Congressional
Staff Employment Surveys (Congressional Management
Organization)
- Typical salaries of Congressional staff members by position, average
age, and years of experience
- Taken biennially for the House and Senate
- Legistorm
- Salaries of Congressional staff members, including interns
- Searchable by name, Member of Congress, and committee
- Advanced
Member Analysis (UMich Only)
- Segment of the CQ Congress Collection
- Search for members of Congress state, position, party, occupation,
religion, sex, race and military service
- Almanac
of American Politics
- Arranged by state and Congressional District
- Detailed political profile of each district as well as demographic
statistics
- Political profiles of individual Members of Congress with brief
election data, lobby group ratings, key votes in Congress, and
campaign finances
- Paper copy in Documents Center (JK
1012 .A44) with older issues in Graduate Library stacks
- Web
Version available to University of Michigan users
since 1998
- Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774+ (Senate)
- Substantial biographies of all Senators, Representatives, and other
delegates to Congress, Continental Congress to the present
- Includes links to the location of their research papers
- Search by first name, last name, position, state, party, and/or
year
- Characteristics of the Congress
- Clerk of the House
- Directories of the 104th Congress to present, biographies of speakers
since the first Congress
- Congressional
Universe
(UMich Only)
- Interactive search for Members of Congress since 1997
- Search terms include sex, race, party, birthdate, educational
attainment, alma mater, religion
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Biographies of Congresspersons as well as the counties and zip codes
represented and staff members, 104th Congress+
- Committee and subcommittee memberships and staff
- Searchable but not browsable
- Index retrieves section of book rather than specific information
- Updated once per year
- Political
Graveyard
- Cemeteries in which over 100,000 federal, state and local politicians
are
buried
- Arranged by name of person, office, birth and death years
- Cemeteries arranged alphabetically and by state/county
- Brief political biography of politician with links to fuller
biographies as available
- Cemetery lists provide biographies of politicians with some links to
the Tiger Map Server
- Extensive section on political families although relationships also
shown under the name search
- Project
Vote Smart
- Campaign finances, lobby group ratings and sample votes of Representatives and Senators
- Answers to National Political Awareness Test (stance on specific issues) if available
- Who's Who in the Federal
Government (U.Memphis)
- Links to biographies of the cabinet and heads of independent agencies
- Includes links to Congressional committee chairs
- Your Congress: Learn
to Laugh
- Biographical directory of the current Congress with humorous twist
- Includes Member's power-rating
- Articles on how to lobby and the 54 kings of money
- Random features on Members of Congress, birthday list, e-mail addresses
- Women
and
Minorities in the 108th Congress (UMich Only)
- Lists names and numbers of blacks, Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islander,
American Indian and women members of the House and Senate
- Also includes occupation and religion in each house
- CQ Weekly Report, January 25, 2003, p. 192-193
- Congressional Quarterly's Guide to Congress, 5th
edition (Doc. Cen. JK 1021 .C75 2000)
- Carries a history of
Congressional salaries in vol. 2, p. 776
- 2000 salary was $141,300 for both Senators and Representatives
- Legistorm
- Database of trips made by Members of Congress with price,
destination, and who paid for it
- Power
Trips (American Radioworks)
- Travel expenses in 2004 by individual Congressmen and Senators
- Travel money spent by the political parties
- Most expensive trips and groups contributing the most to Congressional
travel
- Senate
Ledger, 1790-1881
- Digitized record of compensation and mileage reimbursements paid to
Senators
- Congressional District
Maps: 110th Congress (Chris Chubb)
- Choose name of state; then either pan or choose city or district
number to view
- Map displays county and city names in a district as well as the
representative
- Coloring is by political party of current office holder
- 108th
Congress Demographic Profiles
- Brief population and housing data retabulated to fit the boundaries of
the 108th Congress
- Accessed separately from American Factfinder rather than integrated
into Data Sets
- Offers different options
- Choose geographic comparison and then state
- Choose either 100% or Sample List of Tables, then district and
district subdivision (e.g. county/ census tract)
- 106th
Congressional
District Census Data (UMich)
- Labelled Excel spreadsheets with demographic profile data for each
106th Congressional District
- Covers population, social characteristics, economic characteristics,
and housing characteristics
- In EXCEL, highlight the entire spreadsheet, then select
DATA/SORT/COLUMN NAME/DESCENDING to rank districts by most to least under
any given category
- Congressional District Boundaries
- American
Factfinder
- Draw Congressional District
boundary maps by first going to
Reference
Maps
- Then search or browse for name
of state
- Under
Boundaries
choose
Boundaries
and Labels
for STATE, COUNTIES, CITIES,
PLACES, and 106th or 109th CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICTS
- Congressional
District Maps
- Individual maps for each state appear in pdf format toward the end of
the Congressional Directory
- Government
Redistricting Web Sites (Purdue)
- Links to the Congressional redistricting web sites of most states in
2001
- Often they provide proposed maps, statistics, and redistricting
rules
- Zip
Codes
- House of
Representatives Web Site
- Member and committee directories
- Committee schedules, roll call votes
- Senate
Web Site
- Directories of Senators with name and state
- Includes biographies, committee assignments
- Links to web sites of individual Senators
- Lists of Senate e-mail addresses
- Committee, leadership, procedural, and historical information
- CQ Guide to
Congress (UMich Only)
- Detailed history of Congress and legislative procedure
- How a Bill
Becomes a Law (Dirksen Center)
- Compact but entertaining tool for undertstanding the
federal legislative
process
- Each unit from introduction to bill signing includes legislative
definitions, strategies, statistics and quirks, and the legislative
junkie (links to information sources)
- Legislative
Histories in the United States Congress
- Step-by-step
guide for class assignments
- Includes legislative histories, lobby groups, and campaign finances
- Legislative
Sourcebook (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.)
- Treasures include establishing persistent links to THOMAS and GPO
legislative documents and GAO reports
- Table lists Congresses, 1789-1999, plus serial set volumes and
Presidential Executive Orders
- Excellent lists of House and Senate hearings on the web
- Library of
Congress
- Extensive, annotated list of government and
non-government legislative sources
- Years of
Congress
Conversion Table (Univ. of North Texas)
- List each Congress and session, beginning with the first in 1789
- Provides the opening and closing date
- Especially handy for tracking the text of bills, hearings, and
committee reports when only the Congress is cited
- All Politics
- Today's political news from Time, CNN, and Congressional
Quarterly
- Almanac of Policy
Issues
- Extensive web site on nine policy areas: criminal justice, culture and
society, economics, education, environment, government operations, health,
social welfare, and world affairs
- Each section is divided into 4-10 subtopics
- Provides a non-partisan back to the issues
- Links to articles on all sides of the subject as well as primary
documents and related government agencies, think tanks, and
organizations
- Congressional
Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Environment
and Energy News
- Daily publication on environmental and energy legislation
- Hill on the
Web
- Weekly newspaper on Congress with focus on behind the scenes
information about members
- Searchable archives since June 1999
- National
Journal (UMich Only)
- Full text of the National
Journal,
which analyzes executive branch politics, since 1977
- Paper copy also in Graduate Library as JK 1 .N28 with current issues
in Documents Center
- Almanac
of American Politics, which analyzes Congressional
Districts and the politics of their representatives, since 1998
- Committee
Markup
Reports since 1999
- Public opinion polls and election polls since the late 1990s
- Congress
Daily
- PBS
Political Wrap
- Transcripts of daily political news reported by PBS beginning 1998
- Includes links to background information
- Roll Call
- Several articles on todays Congressional news; archive only by
subscription
- Extensive policy briefings on a current topic (e.g. appropriations)
changed every few weeks
- Full text since 1989 also available in Academic Universe
(UMich Only)
- Guide
to Drafting Legislative Documents (US House
Legislative
Counsel)
- Unannotated links to federal, state, and international drafting
manuals
- Users may need to be creative in linking to the new sites
by eliminating the House of Rep additions to the
URL
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes bills beginning 1989; provides full text and legislative status
- Complete legislative histories for bills passed into law
- GPO
Access
- Bills, committee calendars, reports, and documents beginning 104th Congress
- Best public source for downloading complete text of bills
- History of
Bills (GPO Access)
- Search bills beginning 1983 by keyword or bill number
- Use parentheses for phrase: "S.J.Res.7" or "balanced budget"
- Provides references to the Congressional Record, including:
introduction, committee referral, debate, votes
- Does not provide the complete text of the Record
- THOMAS
- Full text of Congressional bills, 1989+
- Best public source for keyword indexing of bills and Congressional Record due to proximity
searching
- Includes text of all bill versions, legislative status, and links to
reports and debates
- Indexes bills 1973+ by sponsor, subject, and stage in the
legislative process
- Provides bill status and an abstract
Historical Bill Texts
| Time Coverage | Source |
| 1989+ |
Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) |
| 1989+ |
THOMAS |
| 1979-2000 |
Documents Center Microfiche |
| 1933+ |
Law Library Micro 10 S-502 |
| 1900-1932 |
No complete set known. Try printed Congressional Record (J 11.R) or
the House and Senate reports as listed in Congressional
Universe
(UMich Only) |
| 1789-1899 |
Serials and Microforms
FILM X557 = House
FILM X558 = Senate |
- Committee Publications include
- Hearings (testimony)
- Committee Prints (research reports)
- Reports (recommendations on bills)
- Documents (Executive Branch communiques)
- Published Hearings
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [Web]
- Indexes committee hearings, prints and reports since 1789
- Provides access to the full text of selected hearings testimony
beginning 1988, reports since 1989 and committee prints since 1993
- Most publications for the past six years are available in the
Documents Center in paper copy under their SUDOCS (Y1, Y4 or Y10) numbers
all publications are available in the Documents Center on microfiche
- Video on Congressional
Universe (9 minutes, wmv)
- Tips
on Using Full Text Hearings in Lexis Congressional
- Congressional
Hearings (Rutgers-Camden School of Law)
- Full text of over 7000 Congressional hearings published 1970-98
- Searchable by full text
- Hearings may be downloaded page-by-page or in segments
- Congressional
Hearings via
GPO Access
- Selected hearings beginning 1995 also available free to the
public via the Government Printing Office
- Arranged by committee; no index
- Text and pdf formats
- Congressional Publications (Law Librarians' Society of
Washington, D.C.
- Lists Congressional hearings and committee prints, as well as laws,
for sale by the Government Printing Office
- Arranged by week of release and committee since May 25, 1998
- Provides GPO stock number and price
- Congressional Hearings Finding
Guide
- Location of printed and microfiche hearings at the University of
Michigan Library
- Microsoft Word document
- Unpublished hearings
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Carries selected testimony beginning
1988
- Indexed by subject, keyword, speaker, committee and date
- Found under Congressional Publications/Search the Full
Text of Testimony
- Authorized remote users should dial into Ann Arbor Campus
rather than a Merit number with telecommunications package assigned a
campus IP address
- Academic
Universe
- Selected testimony appears under Advanced News
Search/Transcripts/Political Transcripts
- C-Span
- Television coverage of Congressional floor and committee proceedings
translated into real audio; requires helper application
- Current Congressional television programming
- Web sites of
Executive Branch agencies and professional or lobby organizations
called to testify
- The Law Librarians'
Society of Washington, D.C. lists committee web sites
that may have unpublished hearings
- Also
search by keyword in
subject and the word "testimony" in Google's Uncle Sam
(testimony electricity grid)
and FirstGov
(electricity and energy and grid)
- Historic Digitized Hearings
- Reports
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Full text of reports since 1989
- Indexed by keyword, subject, committee, date, and bill number
- THOMAS
- Page down to Committee Information to locate
- Full text of committee reports (i.e. recommendations) searchable by
keyword, bill number, report number, and committee
- Reports segmented into easily viewable segments
- Links to the full text of the legislation in question and legislative
status
- Documents (Executive Branch communications)
available on the web via GPO
Access
- Congressional Serial Set, 1789-1969 (UMich Only)
- Historic Full Text section of LEXIS-NEXIS
Congressional has the full text of over 333,000 documents and 50,000 maps
- Includes all legislative reports on bills, some hearings, national commission reports, and most Executive Branch documents issued during the 19th Century
- Source for social, military, economic, and technology history (immigration, Civil War, Treasury annual reports, lighthouses) as well as geographic explorations
- Indexed by subject, keyword, author, geography, bill number, law number,
witness name, serial number, and SUDOCS number
- Video on Congressional
Universe (9 minutes, wmv)
- Congressional Serial Set
Online Exhibit
- Select
Volumes Digitized by Google
- Serial
Set
- Selected Senate Documents, 1789-1835, 1899, and 1904-05, digitized by
the Library of Congress
- Microfiche copies of the entire Serial Set in the Documents Center
- Paper volumes -1920 in Buhr; 1921+ in Grad Library Stacks on 1
East
- Serial Set at
the University of Michigan
- Location of Congressional Serial Set in paper and microfiche
- Indexes and conversion tables from individual number to bound volume
number
- Schedule
of Volumes (LLSDC)
- List of individual Serial Set volumes beginning 1970 and the
reports/documents each bound volume contains
- Continues listings found in Congressional
Universe
- Table of
Congressional Volumes and Presidential Issuances: 1789-1999 (LLSDC -
pdf)
- Lists Congress, year, and first Serial Set volume number
- The Serial Set is the bound version of House and Senate Reports and
Documents
- Legislative
Archives
(NARA)
- Guide to unpublished legislative and Congressional committee
documents beginning 1789
- Instructions for obtaining the material from the National Archives
- Definitions
- Markups are committee meetings held after the
hearings to
make changes in a bill and make recommendations to the floor about its
passage
- Votes are taken among committee members to
determine whether
the bill should be referred to the floor for consideration
- Reports are issued if the committee
determines to recommend the bill
- Markup sessions are covered primarily by the press rather than
official government reporters
- Academic
Universe
- Provides transcripts and summaries of markups
- Found under News/Transcripts
- The specific file is FDCH Political Transcripts but
it is better to search all transcripts; include the word
markup as a keyword
- Search will include some false drops; look for term MARKS UP in
search results
- National
Journal Markup Reports (UMich Only)
- Full text of committee discussions and votes since 1999
- Searchable by committee or subcommittee, keyword, date, and bill number
- Print sources:
[Library]
- The text of markups often appears in the printed hearings of the
House Agriculture and Foreign Affairs/International Relations committees
- Votes occasionally appear in the House
and Senate Reports submitted on bills
Comprehensive Lists
- This agency of the Library of Congress provides detailed background
information for use by Congressional committees
- Many of the reports are issued as committee
prints
- Can be
identified through Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- All publications are located in the Documents Center either in paper
copy, microfiche, or both
- The majority of reports are issued as Major Studies and
Issue Briefs, which are unpublished
- Major Studies and Issue Briefs
- Cumulative Search
Engine (Information to Act)
- Search engine to Congressional Research Reports on the web using the
Google search engine
- A cumulative index, 1916-89, and updates beginning 1993 are located in
the Documents Center as Z 733 .U56 A208 - Ref.
- Microfilm of the reports, 1975 to 1995, and current indexes are
located in the Serials Room as FILM X1261
- CRS Reports beginning 1996 located on microfiche in the Documents
Center as MICRO-F DoX34 (located in cabinets after the CIS current
hearings)
- CRS
Reports (Stephen Young)
- Historical background on CRS reports
- Excellent list of CRS aggregators
- Article originally appeared in LLRX in 2002
- CRS
Reports (FAS)
- CRS reports on military and security affairs
- CRS Reports
via Pennyhill Press
- Subject arrangement of reports beginning 1994
- Provides abstract and order information
- CRS
Reports (Thurgood Marshall School of Law)
- Numerous reports on multiple subjects in pdf format
- Congressional
Research Service Reports (Univ. of North Texas)
- Full text of many reports since the early 1990s
- Browse by broad heading or search by subject
- Congressional
Research Service WWW Accessible Reports
- List of individual titles or groups of titles on the
environment, foreign relations, the military, space and science,
and the U.S. Government
- Memory
Hole
- Numerous 1990s reports formerly hosted by Christopher Shays and Mark
Green
- Open CRS
- Search engine for major collections of CRS reports
- Also provides an RSS feed at http://opencrs.cdt.org
- Selected CRS
Reports on Congress and Its Procedures (Law Librarians Society of
DC)
- Unique digital versions of CRS reports on Congressional procedure
- Extensive list of other CRS reports on the internet
CRS Reports by Subject
- Congressional Research
Service Reports (National Council for Science and the
Environment)
- Full text of over 800 reports, primarily relating to the environment,
natural resources, and agriculture
- Some reports on international finance, foreign trade, and
governmental reform
- Searchable by author, title, category, CRS number and
keyword in abstract
- CRS Reports on
Foreign Relations (State Department)
- CRS Reports
on Foreign Relations (US Embassy in Italy)
- Title approach to international issues, including terrorism, AIDS,
agriculture, drug control, etc
- CRS Reports
on the Judicial Process
- Selected reports on impeachment, patents, and immigration
- Sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee
- CRS Reports on the
Legislative Process (House Rules)
- Reports from the Congressional Research Service on House and Senate
Rules
- Analytical reports on the introduction of bills, committee and floor
action, the budget process, and Presidential actions
- Includes historical statistics on Presidential vetoes
- CRS
Reports on Science
- CRS
Reports Related to National Security (Global Security)
- Short list of security reports
- GPO
Access
- Floor calendars for the House and Senate beginning 104th Congress
- Century of American
Lawmaking (Library of Congress), 1774-1875
- TIFF images of the
- Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-93)
- Annals of Congress (1789-1824)
- Register of Debates (1824-1837)
- Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
- House and Senate Journals (1789-1873)
- Senate Executive Journal (1789-1873)
- Journal of William Maclay (1789-91)
- Individual issues browsable; search engine for entire collection
rather than individual titles
- Congressional
Universe
(UMich Only), 1985+
- Indexes the floor debates in the Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword, speaker, and date
- Provides the full text
- Congressional
Record Index, 1983+
- Keyword index to the Congressional Record since 1983
- Record includes articles, bills, reports, and remarks with a citation
to the date and page of the Congressional Record daily edition
- GPO
Access, 1994+
- Full text of the Congressional Record beginning 1994
- House
Journal
- Procedural moves in the House of Representatives without debates
- Used for legal purposes
- Full text browsable and searchable, 1991-94
- THOMAS,
1993+
- Congressional bills and Congressional Record, 1993+
- Best public source for keyword indexing of bills and Congressional Record due to proximity
searching
- Best source for text of the Congressional Record
- Includes text of all bill versions
- Updated by the House
Majority Whip's real time account of floor proceedings
(reloaded every 20 seconds) and summaries for the past three days
- Congress Votes
Database (Washington Post)
- Complete list of floor roll call votes in the House and Senate since
the 102nd Congress, 1991
- Sections for each Congress list House and Senate votes and votes by
bill number
- Links from the main listing for each Congress provide analyses of
individual roll call outcomes by party,
state, region, gender, boomer status and astrological sign
- Overall for each Congress there are analyses of those votes with the
widest and narrowest margins, late night votes, and members who missed
the most votes
- There is also a full list of members for each Congress with brief
biographies, a list of their individual roll call votes and how they
compared with GOP and Democratic opinion
- Spanning all Congresses is an analysis of roll call votes for
building designations, impeachments, nominations, speaker elections,
treaties, and vice-presidential tiebreakers
- House of
Representatives Roll Call Votes
- Votes tracked by Clerk of the House beginning 1990
- Arranged by year with most current vote first
- Table provides vote number, bill number, brief description, and
result of vote
- Click on vote number for a summary of yeas and nays by party and for
votes of individual members
- Project Vote
Smart
- Roll call votes on selected issues beginning with the 104th
Congress
- Arranged by subject and then by vote, party affiliation, and
member
- Senate
Floor Votes
- List of floor votes in reverse chronological order beginning with the
99th Congress
- List links to a separate record providing the votes of individual
senators on an issue
- Voteview
(Princeton)
- Free software download to analyze key roll call votes in Congress,
1789-1988
- Choose issue to determine number of yea and nay votes by party
- May map the data by geography or ideology
- Does not include the names of individual Members of Congress
- Detailed guide to tracing legislation
- Includes committee, member, and political information
- Annotated list of the best election web sites
- Candidate web sites, campaign finances, and opinions on issues
- Primary, caucus and convention information
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political
analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and
players
- Current roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is
searchable
- Determine the amount of attention government gave to 19 major
topics, 220
subtopics, or a section of the budget, 1946-2002
- Filters allow you to choose topics and the type of material (budget,
Congressional hearings, Presidential executive orders, laws, New York
Times
articles, CQ Almanac articles, and the Gallup Most Important Problem
Index
- Results yield data and graphs
- Additional dataset tools available
 Political Party
Agendas
- American
Presidency Project (UCSB)
- Political party platforms beginning 1840
- Includes third party platforms when the party received an electoral
vote
- Contract
with America
- Ten policy changes the Republican candidates for the 104th Congress
House
of Representatives brought to the table
- Includes bill text and description
- Paper copy located in Documents Center and Undergraduate Library:
JK 271 .C7331 1994
- Signatories in
1994
- Current newspapers, news magazines, and
periodicals
Pig
Book (Citizens Against Government Waste)
- Listing of pork barrel appropriations for FY 2008 by subject and
state
- Oinker Awards (most obvious pork) and pork barrel per
capita
- Economic Budget and
Outlook projects trends in federal income and expenditures
- Revenue implications of proposed
legislation
- Staff testimony before Congressional
committees
- Renamed Government Accountability Office in 2004
- General Accounting Office
- Lists of recently-released "Reports and Testimonies" beginning with
August 1995
- GAO policy documents and decisions of the Comptroller General
- General Accounting Office Reports to Congress:
- GAO
Blue Book Reports (GPO Access)
- Full text of "Reports to Congress" on government resource management,
October 1, 1994+
- Searchable by keyword in text, report title, report identifier, and date
- For a known report number, use quotation marks and type the number as
shown: "PEMD-95-1"
- Use the National Economic, Social and Environmental Data Bank
CD-ROM, issued through August 1995 and located in Documents Center,
to index earlier reports
- Selected reports are available in paper copy (HJ 10
.R44), GPO microfiche (Micro-F X255), and
American Statistics Index microfiche; ask Documents Center
staff for assistance
- For historical reports not available at the University of Michigan,
contact the General Accounting Office Documents
Distribution Service at 202-512-6000
- Indexes federal government publications since January 1994 and will
ultimately provide links to federal depository libraries receiving those
publications
- Indexes Dept. of Energy and GPO sales publications
- Links to GPO Access sites for the Federal Register,
Congressional Records, bills, and GAO reports
- Links to THOMAS (bills and
Congressional Record),and other federal and state government Internet sources
- Extensive section on Congress found under "Explore the Internet"
- Describes POW/MIA data base
- The OTA published research reports on science and technology
policy until eliminated
- Princeton's
Woodrow Wilson School is a main site for the full text of
the OTA reports
- GPO
Access will serve as an index to the various OTA
sites
- Additional sources:
- All reports, 1972-95, are available on CD-ROM in the Documents Center
(Do 73)
- Search MIRLYN/MCAT
for printed copies of OTA reports
- OTA reports may also be available on Congressional Information
Service microfiche located in the Documents Center
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