Federal Government Branches: Executive, Legislative & Judicial

Legislative Information from the Library of Congress. Provides access to bills, committee reports, Congressional Record , bill summaries and status, and major legislation by topic

Written record of testimony before Congressional committees. Virtually all the recent hearings can be found here (as long as GPO published them), but only selected hearings from the 1990s.

Provides information on membership, committees, and the legislative process

Provides information on membership, committees, and the legislative process

Reports from an agency that evaluates and audits programs and expenditures by the federal government. Browse or search GAO Reports back to the 1960s.

Provides analysis, data and estimates

Congressional Research Service (CRS) is Congress's "think tank." They do public policy research from a publicly-funded agency within the Library of Congress. Began disseminating their reports online in 2018.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) is Congress's "think tank." They do public policy research from a publicly-funded agency within the Library of Congress. In the past, these reports were not always released to the public, but that changed in 2018. This site from the University of North Texas collects and disseminates some 41,000 of them, but stopped in January 2019.

News and videos of floor debates, hearings, etc.

Biographies, issue positions and voting histories of candidates

Monitors and supplies commentary on current and pending legislation

Multiple search options for members' votes

Collection of web-based public accessible sources from New York University School of Law Library.

Archived, interactive congressional proceedings on video

Tracks votes of Members of Congress on bills and procedural motions from 1789 to the present.