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- Clerk of the House
- Directories of the 104th Congress to present, biographies of speakers
since the first Congress
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1992
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- Web site also includes rules manual and forms (lobby
registration, member travel expenses, etc.)
- Congress.org
- Directories of the currentCongress members
and committees
- Congressional
Directories (UMich)
- House and Senate Member lists arranged by state and district
- Address, phone, fax, e-mail and web site for incumbents
- Updated several times per week
- Older directories beginning 1993
-
Congressional E-Mail Addresses, 108th Congress,
1999/2000(UMich)
- E-mail for Representatives and Senators
- Easy to download or print for redistribution
- Updated several times per week
- 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
- Doc. Ref. JK 1083 .C75
- Contacting
Congress (Juan Cabanela)
- Provides a web interface to Member
phone, fax, district office, and
e-mail address
- Also lists committee assignments
with the phone, fax, district office, e-mail address, and biography
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Biographies of Congresspersons as well as the counties and zip codes
represented and staff members
- Committee and subcommittee memberships and staff
- Searchable and browsable
- Index retrieves section of book rather than specific information
- Updated once per year in September so may be outdated at the beginning of a new Congress
- Roll Call
- Congressional directories searchable by zip code
- Includes picture, biographical information, campaign finances, committees, email and fax
- Committee directories rank members by political party
- Zip-to-It
(Juan Cabanela)
- Search for Representative by zip code
- Includes the latest redistricting and various options if a
District is split by zip code
- Clerk of the House
- Directories of the 104th Congress (1995+) to present, biographies of speakers
since the first Congress
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1992
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- Congressional Addresses, 1993/94+ (UMich) [Web]
- House and Senate directories include district, party, address, telephone, fax, e-mail and web site
- Congressional Yellow Book
[Library]
- Addresses, committee membership, and staff
- Doc.Cen. JK 1083 .C75-Ref. with older issues in stacks
- Official
Congressional Directory, 1995+ [Web]
- Index to Members of Congress, committees, staff and
Executive Branch agencies, searchable by keyword
- Search usually retrieves a section of the directory rather
than a specific piece of information
- Alternative web site
at UCalif-San Diego
- Almanac
of American Politics
- Biennial biographical directory of Members of Congress
- Lengthy information about the politics of the Congressional District
- Brief campaign finances, lobby group ratings, and key roll call votes
- Documents Center JK 1012 .A44 with current in Graduate Library Stacks
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [Web]
- Create lists of Congress by sex, race, birthdate, religion, military history, party, educational attainment, almamater, and when elected
- Biographies themselves are brief
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO) [Web]
- Biographies of Congresspersons as well as the counties and zip codes
represented and staff members
- Searchable but not browsable
- Index retrieves section of book rather than specific information
- Updated once per year
- Politics in America
- Identify Member of Congress by State, zip code, or name
- Profile section includes biographical, campaign finance, district,
and election information; bills introduced, current speeches, roll call
votes
- A rating section allows user to compare opinions with the Senator or
Representative
- Documents Center as JK 1010.P76-Ref.
- Project Vote
Smart [Web]
- Extensive annotated links to Presidential and Congressional campaign
finance web sites
- Biographies, lobby group ratings, and answers to the National Political Awareness Test
- 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
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [Web]
- THOMAS [Web]
- Indexes bills since 1973 by sponsor, subject, keyword and stage in
legislative process
- Provides texts, summaries, and legislative status
- Cashing
In
- Subtitle: A Guide to Money, Votes, and Public Policy in
the 104th Congress
- Analyzes 42 issues and 28 roll call votes in the 104th Congress on
household finance, tax, environmental, and health issues
- Identifies the votes of key Congressmen and the campaign funding
received by lobby groups who took positions on the issues
- Users may also search an issue to determine the votes of individual
Members of Congress or the alignments within a state or party
- Search results include the Member's vote and the campaign
contributions received from the corresponding lobby group
- Congressional Universe (Umich Only)
- Members includes annual financial disclosures and detailed PAC contributions since 1987 searchable by Member
- FECInfo (Tony
Raymond) [Web]
- Data purchased from the Federal Election Commission and manipulated for easy use
- 1996 Congressional and Presidential campaign contributions with continuing coverage
- Data searchable by
name, state, Political Action Committee, or individual
- Special analyses include contributors by occupation or zip code and
candidates receiving the most out-of-state money
- User-friendly interface
- Federal Election
Commission [Web]
- Summary receipts and disbursements of Presidential and all Congressional
candidates in 1996
- Image files of individual campaign committee reports beginning with
the 1997/98 cycle
- Detailed files with individual contributors for 1993/94 and 1995/96
must be downloaded
- Open Secrets
- Non-partisan research group monitoring campaign reform
- Congressional campaign finance filings
- Personal
Finance Disclosure Reports on Congress and presidential
candidates are in pdf format and may be over 3 MB
- Open Secrets
- Lobby group campaign contributions to Members of Congress arranged by
industry and separately by member
- Web version in Adobe Acrobat format corresponds to paper version in
Documents Center (JK 1991 .M261)
- Project Vote
Smart [Web]
- Extensive annotated links to Presidential and Congressional campaign
finance web sites
- Biographies, lobby group ratings, and answers to the National Political Awareness Test
- Congress.org
- Member directory lists committee assignments
- Committee directory lists subcommittee assignments
- Most updated source available
- Contacting
Congress (Juan Cabanela)
- Provides a web interface to Member
phone, fax, district office, and
e-mail address
- Also lists committee assignments
with the phone, fax, district office, e-mail address, and biography
- Congressional Committee Assignments (UMich)
- Congressional Yellow Book [Library]
- Committee and subcommittee addresses, members, and staff
- Doc.Cen. JK 1083 .C75-Ref. with older issues in stacks
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO)
- Committee and subcommittee memberships and staff
- Searchable but not browsable
- Index retrieves section of book rather than specific information
- Updated once per year in September so may be outdated at the beginning of a new Congress
- ABC News
- One of the few archived elections sites for the 1998 elections
- Detailed vote counts for candidates and percentages
- Arranged by Congressional chamber or state
- Clerk of the House
- Directories of the 104th Congress to present, biographies of speakers
since the first Congress
- List of Senate and House nominees for the 1996 elections
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1992
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- Web site also includes rules manual and forms (lobby
registration, member travel expenses, etc.)
- Project Vote Smart
- Biographies, lobby group ratings, campaign receipts by Political
Action Committee subject groupings
- Candidate answers to the National Political
Awareness Test, a questionnaire on issues in the election
- Current Congress and Governors
- Related
Information
- Almanac
of American Politics (UMich Only)
- Biennial biographical directory of Members of Congress
- Lengthy information about the politics of the Congressional District
- Brief campaign finances, lobby group ratings, and key roll call votes
- Documents Center JK 1012 .A44 with current in Graduate Library Stacks
- League of
Conservation Voters [Web]
- Floor votes and LCV ratings on environmental issues beginning 1993
- Politics in America
- Identify Member of Congress by State, zip code, or name
- Profile section includes biographical, campaign finance, district,
and election information; bills introduced, current speeches, roll call
votes
- A rating section allows user to compare opinions with the Senator or
Representative
- Documents Center as JK 1010.P76-Ref.
- Project
Vote Smart [Web]
- Campaign finances for 1996 elections
- Votes on major issues by subject with corresponding lobby group
ratings
- Voter
Information Service [Web]
- Ratings of House and Senate members by 25 lobby groups, 1989 to
present
- Arranged by State and District; listings can be confusing when
redistricting has occurred
- Academic Universe
- Full text of news conferences and speeches by individual members of Congress
- Especially search the file News/Transcripts/Political Transcripts
- Congressional Web Sites [Web]
- Congressional Record
- Congressional
Record via Congressional Universe (UMich only)
- Congressional Record via
THOMAS [Web]
- Indexes Congressional Record via keyword, date, and speaker since 1993
- Best and most current public source for speeches
- Politics in America
- Identify Member of Congress by State, zip code, or name
- Profile section includes biographical, campaign finance, district,
and election information; bills introduced, current speeches, roll call
votes
- A rating section allows user to compare opinions with the Senator or
Representative
- Documents Center as JK 1010.P76-Ref.
- Project Vote
Smart [Web]
- Answers to National Political Awareness Test
- Congressional Quarterly
Almanac [Library]
- Floor votes are indexed in back of volume
- Usually published six months after end of previous year
- Doc.Cen. JK 1 .C756--Ref.
- CQ Weekly Report
[Library]
- Weekly periodical with quarterly indexes
- More current than the Almanac
- Floor votes in every issue
- Doc.Cen. JK 1.C12--Ref. with older issues in Grad Library Stacks
- Votes since 1995 also appear on the CQ Weekly Report
web site
- Congressional
Quarterly Weekly Report (UMich Only)
- Indexes floor votes since 1995 by keyword, bill number, date, and chamber
- Provides summary of the bill and votes by individual members
- Congressional Universe (UMich
Only)
- Floor votes are included in two places under the Members section
- Votes
- Searchable by bill number and Congress
- Provides data on all members
- Sort by vote type (yea/nay, party, member name, or state and district
- Key Votes is arranged by Member of Congress
- House of
Representatives Roll Call Votes
- Votes tracked by Clerk of the House beginning 1997
- 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 [Web]
- Roll call votes on selected issues beginning with 1989
- Choose by issue, year and chamber
- Various sorting options
- 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
- Women's
Voting Guide
- Compare the voting record of any member of Congress to user's
personal opinion
- Over 300 issues, including children, crime, defense, environment
- Congressional Record
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [Web]
- THOMAS [Web]
- Indexes Congressional Record via keyword and bill number since 1993
- Floor votes given in the text
- Citing government documents
- Citing electronic sources
 Political Process
- Legislation is a highly political process, despite this logical outline
- Public Policy Matrix is a chart summarizing the legislative process and sources for political information about the process
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