• Most comprehensive about the U.S. Congress available
• Under Legislation tab, can consult specific information on Bill Drafting, Bills,
Committee Calendars, Congressional Research Service, Debates, Floor Calendars, Floor Votes, Hearings, News, Politics. Comprehensive Research Guides.
• Provides a valuable Legislative Histories Tutorial.
• Comprehensive Congressional Directories, Committees and Congressional
emails for all members.

• A painstaking analysis and discussion of the U.S. Legislative Process
• Latest Congressional Directory
• Pictorial Directory of Congress
• A discussion of all other major research/reference sites for the U.S. Congress

• Contains a list of Senators by State
• The Reference tab has a Virtual Reference Desk giving general information on
the Senate, the legislative branch and the Federal Government in general.
• All standing Senate committees are listed with a complete list of membership.
• Legislation tab – Clicking on Active Legislation will give you a list of current bills
(public laws, still in committee, drafts) receiving legislative or media attention. These are listed alphabetically by popular title or by general subject. Updated weekly when senate is in session. Can receive updates via your email account. Easy way to find out what legislation has been recently passed or is being considered on any topic.
• How to Tab: is the most valuable of all. Here you will locate information on how to
find bills, committee reports, conference reports, laws, acts, statutes, congressional voting patterns and more generally, how to efficiently use specific US government sites and databases.
• U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with full-text of hearings, press
releases and legislation at:http://foreign.senate.gov Overall, this redesigned web site is just superlative.

• list of Web Sites and biographical information for individual Congress people (representatives)
• extensive listing of House Committees, with members and schedules
• Access to the U.S. Code, with extensive search features
• Finding a U.S. Bill or Law, with links to the Thomas and Library of Congress Web Sites.
• Details and Procedures for the Legislative Process
• Finding Congressional Voting Information and Patterns
• 2Congress members listed by state or by name
• Comprehensive search features throughout
• Extensive Links to related government web sites at:
  http://www.house.gov/house/govsites.html

Other useful gateway sites are:

Federal Government Web Servers:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
(Louisiana State University.) A service in partnership with the US Government Printing Office. Provides access to more than 1100 USG web sites.

USA:
http://www.USA.gov/
USA is intended to be your first resource to find government information on the Internet, with topics ranging from business and economy to money and benefits to science and technology - and everything in between. Links to over 30 million web pages by topic.

• Provides a Citizens and Consumers guide to the Congress (under the Legislative Branch link) with access to the web pages of each representative.
• A Spanish Language version of the First Gov Web Site is also available at: http://www.espanol.gov
• Other Spanish language versions of US Government and International Web Sites available at: http://library.nevada.edu/govpub/ and http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/topiclists/us-spanish.htm

• Under Legislative Branch, links are provided to the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader and the Democratic Leader.
• A Reference Guide provides further guides and histories for the U.S. Congress.

• Under Legislative Resources, view Congressional Bills, Congressional Record, Public and Private Laws and the U.S. Code.
• An A-Z Resource provides a very comprehensive list of official Federal Resources.
• Also view the latest Congressional Directory.

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• Provides extensive links to all U.S. Government Agencies and all branches of government.

Virtual Reference Desk for the U.S. Government

• Provides Government Documents by Subject (look at Congress, for example)
• Government Documents by Title
• Government Documents by Agency