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Related Links: Congress
 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/legi.html
This link takes you to the official U.S. House and U.S. Senate pages. On them you can find information about the membership of each branch, roll-call votes, hearing schedules, historical information, and much more. The site contains links to individual members’ pages too. The site also links to agencies of Congress, such as the General Accounting Office and the Library of Congress, and to other federal agencies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/
This is the Web site of the Washington Post, whose news coverage of Congress is unrivaled.

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html
Links to texts of bills, the congressional record (reporting the entire floor debates), and committee hearings and reports.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/congress.html
Want to know how many Asian Americans are in Congress and who they are? How much members of Congress make? Who the leadership is? This page links to all kinds of statistics about Congress, along with links to the home pages and e-mail addresses of members.

http://www.senate.gov/src/
Senate Republican Conference.

http://www.house.gov/democrats/welcome.html
This Congress-related Web sites offered by the Democrats provides information on the minority leadership and gives the Democratic position on major issues before Congress.

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

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

http://www.rollcall.com/
For the real inside facts on what’s going on in Washington, D.C., you can look at RollCall, the newspaper of the Capitol.

http://www.cq.com/
Congressional Quarterly, a publication that reports on Congress.

http://www.hillnews.com/
The Hill, which investigates various activities of Congress.