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Federal Legislation Online

Congress.gov Official U.S. Congress site, providing access to legislative information, Congressional Record, Congressional Research Service Reports, information about members of Congress, and more.
govinfo Official publications and documents from the United States government.

GovTrack.US Publish the status of federal legislation, information about your representative and senators in Congress including voting records, and original research on bills and votes. Use GovTrack to track bills for updates by getting alerts and understand the broader context of legislation through their statistical analyses

ProQuest Congressional Publications related to or from the United State Congress and the Executive branch from 1789 to the present that include laws, legislative histories, House and Senate hearings, bills and reports, the Congressional Record, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, plus Executive Orders, Proclamations and other documents related to the presidency.

U.S. Senate "Active Legislation" (1999-) The Senate website allows searches by popular title or subject of a bill; once the bill number is located, links to Congress.gov allow further bill research. The website also contains legislative histories of appropriations bills from 1987 forward and records of Senate votes back to 1989.
U.S. House of Representatives under a "Bills and Reports" tab, links to Bills This Week, Bills Presented to the President, Bill Status, Committee Reports, and the Congressional Record. Voting records for the current Congress are also shown. The Clerk of the House of Representatives website tracks legislation, shows roll-call votes (back to 1990), and links to bill texts and status.

CQ Press Library Search across multiple Congressional Quarterly publications on one platform: CQ Almanac, CQ Researcher Plus Archive, CQ Magazine, Politics in America 2018, Supreme Court Yearbooks. Includes historical data about American voting from presidential, U.S. Congressional and state elections in the Voting and Elections Collection. (For other CQ Press books and reference, search the SAGE Knowledge platform.)
National Bureau of Economic Research: NBER Index of working papers from the National Bureau of Economics Research.
PAIS Index Index to journal articles, books, government documents, reports, and papers, covering public affairs and policy.
PolicyMap Geographic information system with policy-related data about demographics, real estate, crime, income, jobs, education, energy, and more.
Political Science Database Journals in political science and international relations.
POLITICO Pro Policy news covering agriculture, budget and appropriations, campaigns, cybersecurity, defense, education, energy, health, labor, employment, taxes, technology, trade, and transportation.
ProQuest Databases covering a broad range of subject areas including business, economics, education, humanities, literature, news, social sciences, science and technology and more.