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US Senate
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House Members Home Pages
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Congressional Bills: 110th Congress Catalog -list of all congressional bills and summaries of the bill.
Congressional Record -The Congressional Record contains the edited transcript of activities on the floor of the House and the Senate. The “Daily Digest” section summarizes action in each chamber, committee hearings, new public laws, and committee meetings scheduled for the next legislative day.
Commitee Reports
How to Find Voting Records
Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Resources -pdf guide to finding legislative resources
Reference Desk -A clearinghouse of Senate information on the Web and guides to resources in libraries and archives.
Fed Net-videos of debates etc. occuring on the floor of the capital
MetaVid-keyword search of every word spoke on the floors of the house or senate which links to the video or audio
Legislation Cost Estimates
GAO -reports of the General Accounting Office
Vetos
CRS
Obstruction of Justice: an Overview of Some of the Federal Statutes that Prohibit Interference with Judicial, Executive, or Legislative Activities
Obstruction of Congress: a Brief Overview of Federal Law Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities
Congressional Franking Privilege: Background and Current Legislation
Congress's Contempt Power: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure
Congress's Contempt Power: A Sketch
White House
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents -This weekly periodical provides information such as the dates on which the
President signed or vetoed legislation. Also, it contains transcripts of presidential messages to Congress, executive orders, and speeches and other material released by
the White House.
Statements of Administration Policy on Non-Appropriations and Appropriations Bills -OMB comments about proposed legislation.
Executive Agencies -agencies and their sub-agencies with links
Press Secretary
CRS Reports
Misuse of Government Purchase Cards -CRS
Regular Vetoes and Pocket Vetoes: An Overview
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Regulations.gov -Here, people can search and view proposed regulations from about 160 federal departments and agencies.
Codes
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Popular Names of Acts in the US Code
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CRS
Entering the Executive Branch of Government: Potential Conflicts of Interest With Previous Employments and Affiliations
Electronic Rulemaking in the Federal Government -CRS
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The Whistleblower Protection Act: An Overview -CRS pdf
Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) -This World Wide Web site is provided as a public service by General Services Administration (GSA) for the purpose of efficiently and conveniently disseminating information on parties that are excluded from receiving Federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain Federal financial and nonfinancial assistance and benefits, pursuant to the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 6101, note, E.O. 12549, E.O. 12689, 48 CFR 9.404, and each agency's codification of the Common Rule for Nonprocurement suspension and debarment.
Speech, statements, and interviews databases
American Rhetoric-Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States-"Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events. In instances when the release date differs from the date of the document itself, that fact is shown in the textnote. "
American Presidency Project -public papers of presidents
Presidential Signing Statements
Think tanks
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Political commentary
We do not vouch for the credibility of the opinions. For comparison purposes only. Do not link to or use as a fact reference. May link to comments made directly by a politician. Talk shows are copy-righted. Do not copy and paste large segments of the show-link to the transcript!
Political Talk Show Transcripts
Opinion Columnists
Opinion Sites
This is a sample list and does not include all sites. Sites that would be included are 1)any site whose main function is to promote a political ideology-a PAC, 2)any pharm sites, 3)any gossip sites, 4) personal blogs, 5) comic sites, 6)any other message board or 7)any site which uses undisclosed sources for their support. These sites are opinion sites and should not be linked to. The purpose of this board is to share our own personal opinions and to respond to other members comments about them. Using an opinion site does not allow for this give and take.
Powerline Blog -personal opinions
Huffington Report -personal opinions
White House.org -this and other such sites are pharm sites-sites imitating real sites. (Official governmental sites use dot gov)
Yahoo Answers -message board
Wikileaks -anonymous sources. No quality control
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Think tanks
All these sites state they are non-partisan. These are ideological sites promoting a certain viewpoint. The list is from FactCheckEd, Politics1 and Wikipedia. These may be used for comparison of various ideological view points. It is recommend that you verify information from these sites using an independent source e.g. CBO reports or stats provided by reporting agencies. (See FedStats -one of the buttons on the left)This is a sampling and is not a total listing of these groups. More liberal think tanks & NGOs can be found here. More conservative think tanks and NGOs can be found here
Center for American Progress -Liberal
The Independent Institute -Libertarian
The Heritage Foundation- Conservative
The Cato Institute -libertarian
The Brookings Institution -Liberal/centrist
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research -conservative
Ayn Rand Institute
Carter Center
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Concord Coalition
Council on Foreign Relations
Economic Policy Institute
Employment Policies Institute
Guttmacher Institute
Hudson Institute
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Kaiser Family Foundation
Migration Policy Institute
National Academies
National Academy of Social Insurance
National Bureau of Economic Research
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
RAND Corporation
Resources for the Future (RFF)
Tax Foundation
Urban Institute
Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Misc. sites with an ideological viewpoint:
Breakthechain.org -against junk e-mail and political emails
FactCheck.org -uses Think Thanks that they acknowledge are ideological in their viewpoints.
Librarians' Internet Index
Quackwatch
Snopes.com
TruthOrFiction.com
Wikipedia
Urbanlegends.about.com
World Bank
For The Cause/ Special Interest/ NGOs (from FactCheck)
These sites offer information to the public while also advocating for a cause. Some of these groups are PACs (P) and/or lobbyist (LY). The information they provide may not always be accurate. Verify information contained on these sites from an independent sources e.g. CBO reports or stats provided by reporting agencies. (See FedStats -one of the buttons on the left)
AARP (L)(LY)
Accuracy in Media (C)
ACLU (L) -there are two branches. The ACLU Foundation focuses on law-suits and communications
Alliance for Justice
American Policy Center (#)
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Center for Responsive Politics
Congresspedia
Center for Media and Democracy
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens For Tax Justice
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Committee for Justice
Consumer Federation of America
Death Penalty Information Center
Environmental Defense
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (L)
FedSpending.org
Human Events
ImportanceOfPhilosophy.com (#)
Innocence Project
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Link Crusader (L)
Media Matters (L)
Media Research Center (C)
MediaRights.org (L)
NARAL Pro-Choice America
National Center for Policy Analysis
National Immigration Forum
National Immigration Law Center
National Rifle Association
National Right to Life Committee
National Taxpayers Union
NewsMax.com (C)
NumbersUSA
LOUIS
Objectivist Center (#)
OMB Watch
OpenCongress.org
Open House Project
Open Secrets.org
Planned Parenthood
Project Vote Smart
PR Watch.org
Public Citizen
Reason (#)
The Raw Story (L)
Real Time Investigations
Sierra Club (L)
SourceWatch
Sunlight Foundation
TomPaine.com (L)
Think Progress
Town Hall
U.S. PIRG
United Seniors Association (USA Next) (C)
Watch Dogging 101
We The People (L)
WorldNetDaily (C)
code: L-liberal, C-conservative, #-libertarian
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