U.S. Government Resources: Legislative Branch

Architect of the Capitol
http://www.aoc.gov/

The Architect of the Capitol is responsible to the United States Congress for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the Capitol, the congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress buildings, the Supreme Court building, the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Capitol Power Plant, and other facilities.

Congress
http://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/

GPO Access offers official, searchable databases to Congressional publications, House and Senate materials, and more.

Congress.org
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Congress.org allows users to: identify and contact elected leaders in Congress, the White House, and state legislatures; post letters online in Letters to Leaders and read what other Americans are saying to elected officials; and, find and contact local and national media by ZIP code or by state with Media Guide.

Congressional Budget Office
http://www.cbo.gov/

CBO aims to provide the Congress with the objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with the information and estimates required for the Congressional budget process.

Congressional Pictorial Directory
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/index.html

This GPO Access database provides the Pictorial Directory from the 105th Congress to present. Published biennially by the Joint Committee on Printing of the U.S. Congress, it provides a black and white photograph of each member of the House of Representatives and the Senate. It also includes information about a Member of Congress' length of service, political party affiliations, and Congressional district. Also contains pictures of the President, Vice President, and House and Senate officers and officials.

Congressional Research Service Reports
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/

The National Library for the Environment offers links by topic to CRS Reports.

The Constitution of the United States of America
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

The Constitution of the United States is the oldest Federal constitution in existence and was framed by a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen original states in Philadelphia in May 1787. The Constitution is the landmark legal document of the United States. Through GPO Access, online access is available to the Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution and other publications on the historical document.

The Declaration of Independence
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html

The National Archives and Records Administration site provides the complete text, images, and analytical information of this foremost American historical document.

General Accounting Office
http://www.gao.gov/

The entire federal government is subject to review by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of the Congress. Most GAO reports are done at the request of Congress and all unclassified reports are available to the public. The GAO Reports database contains abstracts of reports and testimony from 1975 to the present and provides links to full text of available electronic reports. Search by date, title, subject, or agency.

Government Printing Office
http://www.gpo.gov/

GPO ensures the public's right to access government information by collecting, organizing, maintaining, preserving and disseminating it, mostly through the Federal Depository Library Program. GPO began operations on June 23, 1860, and its activities are under the authority of the public printing and documents chapters of Title 44 of the U.S. Code.

Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.html

The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.

House Committees
http://www.house.gov/house/CommitteeWWW.html

Links to all House committees, as well as a searchable quick link database, are offered at this House web site.

House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

The U.S. House of Representatives portal offers up-to-date schedule and legislative information, as well as access to members' web sites and House Committee sites.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

This extremely versatile site features the American Memory and the American Treasures projects which provide documents, photographs, motion pictures and sound recordings from the Library's collections and exhibits. It also provides search capabilities for the library catalog, direct access to THOMAS (full text of U.S. House and Senate documents), the Global Legal Information Network, the U.S. Copyright Office, as well as links to other internet research sources.

Office of the Law Revision Counsel
http://uscode.house.gov/

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. Search the Code, classification tables, codification legislation, and more.

Senate
http://www.senate.gov/

The U.S. Senate web site provides information about U.S. Senators, Senate Committees, active legislation and schedules, and much more.

Senate Committees
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/ committees_home.htm

The Senate offers access to membership listings, hearing schedules, and links to committee web sites.

Senate Historical Office
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Senate_Historical_Office.htm

The Historical Office collects and provides information on important events, precedents, dates, statistics, and historical comparisons of current and past Senate activities for use by members and staff, the media, scholars, and the general public.

THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Legislative information on the Internet can be accessed through this comprehensive Library of Congress web site. Links are provided to legislation, Congressional Record, committee information, and other congressional material.

United States Code, Cornell LII
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode

Through the Legal Information Institute, this version of the U.S. Code integrates the services of the House servers and of the Library of Congress Thomas service to supply you with accurate updates to any section which has changed. The date of any text appearing on this site appears in italics at the upper right in every Code section. Search by Title and Section.

United States Code, GPO
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html

The United States Code is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 50 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1926, the Code has been published every six years. In between editions, annual cumulative supplements are published in order to present the most current information. Documents on this GPO Access site are available only as ASCII text files (1994 - current).

United States Code, Office of the Law Revision Counsel
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. This database provides a search of current and previous versions of the Code.

U.S. Botanic Garden
http://www.usbg.gov/

The United States Botanic Garden traces its beginning to 1816, when the constitution of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., proposed the creation of a botanic garden to collect, grow, and distribute plants of this and other countries that might contribute to the welfare of the American people. The Garden was moved to its present location, 100 Maryland Avenue, SW, in 1933, and is under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol.

U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

Louisiana State University has prepared a federal agency directory in complete alphabetical and hierarchical order, as well as other links to the sub-categories of the U.S. government.

U.S. Legislative Branch (Library of Congress Internet resource page)
http://thomas.loc.gov/links/

Thomas, the Library of Congress legislative portal, provides access to information about the houses of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives, agencies and commissions, and legislative research sources.