Government Information: Legislative Branch - Congress

Pictorial directory of Senate and House members for the 116th Congress.

Lists of who is in Congress, committee assignments, and legislation activities, etc. for the 117th Congress.

Both a video and written description of the legislative process.

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

From the Congressional Research Service. All reports from the past two years are now freely available to the public to read and download.

Archived copies of CRS Reports

The Homeland Security Digital Archive database has a menu pull-down choice to search for 18,000+ CRS reports.

1971 - 2022. These Annual Reports include a list of CRS reports issued during the prior year.

Tracks the United States Congress and informs the citizens on what is going on in Congress.

An independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog,"

Produces independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process.

These Annals (also called Debates and Proceedings) cover the 1st Congress through the first session of the 18th Congress.

Provides summaries of the "leading debates and incidents" of each session.

Contains the debates of Congress from the 23rd Congress, 1st Session through the 42nd Congress.

Includes House and Senate Documents and Reports; reports usually concerning proposed legislation or issues under investigation. Documents address many topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations or reports of special investigations made for Congress.

US Serial Set from the 85th Congress (1957-58) - 112th Congress (2011-2012) Contains numerical lists of documents and reports and Schedule of Serial Set Volumes

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, 1774-1873.

The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. Congress.gov is usually updated the morning after a session adjourns. This site takes the place of the old THOMAS.GOV site which has been retired.

Govinfo.gov is now out of Beta testing and FDsys.gov will be retired in Dec 2018. Govinfo is a user-friendly, modernized site that provides an easy to use navigation system accessible on smartphones, tablets, laptops and personal computers.

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.

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

New searchable version of the CFR from GPO and the National Archives.

The CFR is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis.

Another interface to the CFR, provided by the Legal Information Institute (Cornell). Links to the official version from GPO Access (listed above).

The US Code is prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives

Arranges federal law into titles (subjects). Includes current and one previous edition (1994 forward).

Statute Compilations are compilations of public laws that either do not appear in the U.S. Code or that have been classified to a title of the U.S. Code that has not been enacted into positive law.

Generated from the most recent official version made available by the US House of Representatives. From the Legal Information Institute (Cornell).

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.

Search for committee documents from the Office of the Clerk for the House of Representatives.

A guide to Federal regulatory information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA).

"... the public face of the Federal E-Government eRulemaking Program, facilitates public participation in the Federal regulatory process by improving the public's ability to find, view, and comment on Federal regulatory actions."

The United States Statutes at Large is the collection of laws passed by the United States Congress, in chronological order. Source is from the Law Library of Congress.