Government Documents & Information: Legislative Branch (Congress)

Brings together information on the status of federal legislation, voting records, and other congressional data from official sources. Provides email updates and RSS/Atom feeds for all aspects of Congress.

A comparison table of Internet and online sources for U.S. federal and state legislative and regulatory information from the Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C.

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. Since that time THOMAS has expanded the scope of its offerings to include the features and content listed below.

From the Washington Post, contains roll call votes from 1991 to the present.

A reference guide for those interesting in Congressional activities. This is an source of impartial data on Congress and its members from the Brookings Institution.

Includes all congressional documents available in electronic format, 1985 to present, in text or PDF formats. Note: there are three types of documents: House and Senate Documents; Senate Executive Documents; and Senate Treaty Documents.

Transcripts of all discussion and debate from the floor of Congress. Note: SU Library has all of the Congressional Record (and its predecessors) on microfiche in the Maps and Government Information Department, 3rd floor Bird Library.

Search for committee hearings of the 110th to the 112th congress from the Office of the Clerk for the House of Representatives.

The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. Includes 1994 (Volume 59) to present