Politics: Congress

Search and retrieve any of the following:

Full text of legislation, including info on floor votes (1993–present)
House and Senate committee reports (1995–present)
Congressional Record (1789–present)

To search any of the publications below, use the Advanced Search and limit to the desired publication:

Budget of the U.S. Government (1996–present)
Code of Federal Regulations (1996–present)
Congressional Hearings (1997–present)
United States Code, the law of the land

Use this resource to explore law-making activity from the 93rd Congress (1973-74) to today.

Provided by the University of North Texas

Provided by the University of Maryland

Use the menu or search form to search for reports by date, topic author, etc.

The U.S. Congress Votes Database documents every vote and member of the House and Senate since 1991, including voting records, financial disclosure statements, and related statistics.

For every member of the US Congress, this website provides transcripts of speeches and statements, interest group ratings, and voting records by subject. It seeks to provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials.

See the progress and status of any bill in any of the 50 states.

Proceedings and debates of the US Congress from 1995 to the Present through Congress.gov.

This archive includes the Journals of the Continental Congress, the House and Senate Journals, Bills and Resolutions, and the American State Papers.

See how candidates and committees raise and spend money in federal elections, 1979/80 - present.
~ Federal Election Commission

Presents data on campaign contributions gathered from public records.

This archive contains every hour of programming aired on C-SPAN since 1987. This includes floor debates and committee hearings from the House and Senate.

Use the Browse option to drill down into the database. For example, click on Bills and then choose the Congress and bill number of interest to see speeches and debates. Or click Congressional Committees, then choose the Congress and committee of interest to watch committee meetings.