U.S. Government Information 

By Robert B. Dove, Parliamentarian, United States Senate (Updated February 1997).

This brochure provides a basic outline of the numerous steps of our federal lawmaking process from the source of an idea for a legislative proposal through its publication as a statute.

The chief function of Congress is the making of laws. The legislative process comprises a number of steps, and much information is available from this page concerning the legislation introduced and considered in the 110th Congress...

Congressional documents originate from congressional committees and cover a wide variety of topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations made for Congress, and annual reports ...

Congressional reports originate from congressional committees and deal with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. There are two types of reports House and Senate Reports and Senate Executive Reports.

Congressional committee prints, documents, treaty documents and other special publications either required by Congress or deemed important enough to publish. Excellent source for primary sources about the history of the United States...

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports bound by session of Congress. ..

Capitol Words gives you an at-a-glance view into the daily proceedings of the U.S. Congress through the simplest lens available-a single word. For every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Cong Rec.

GPO Access provides free public access to full-text, official Federal information.

GovTrack tracks the United States Congress. Follow the status of federal legislation or learn about your members of Congress -- GovTrack has information on all bills and votes going back over a decade, etc. ...

Provides info produced by or pertaining to Congress, including House and Senate documents from 1995 onward, directories of members, committee rosters, the full text of bills from 1989 and of committee reports from 1990.

Welcome to the first phase of LOUIS - the Library Of Unified Information Sources, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, and an effort to illuminate the workings of the federal government...

OpenCongress lets you research, track, and understand legislation in Congress.

THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.

Congressional committee prints, documents, treaty documents and other special publications either required by Congress or deemed important enough to publish. Excellent source for primary sources about the history of the United States...