Index A-Z

A

• About Congress.gov
• Accounts – create a Congress.gov account to manage alerts and saved searches
• Action on legislation – Browse by date – also called Yesterday in Congress, includes legislation introduced, reported, passed, and considered by the full House of Representatives or Senate each legislative day
• Active legislation – Senate.gov finding aid
• Advanced search – Congress.gov advanced search options
• Advanced search form – legislation only (93rd Congress-, 1973-)
• Command line
• Query builder
• Agencies of the U.S. government – USA.gov
• Alerts on Congress.gov – sign up for email alerts on members, individual bills, nominations, saved searches, and the Congressional Record
• Amendments – see also Legislation, Legislative Process
• Congress.gov resources
• Amendments to the Constitution – Constitution Annotated
• Browse House and Senate amendments (97th Congress-, 1981-)
• Related glossary terms
• amendment
• amendment exchange
• amendment in the nature of a substitute
• Anomalies – legislative data anomalies on Congress.gov
• AOC – Architect of the Capitol
• Plan a visit to the U.S. Capitol – Capitol Visitor Center
• Explore Capitol Hill – AOC.gov
• Appropriations – see also Appropriations and Budget Research Guide
• Amending appropriations bills: a basic guide – House Rules Committee
• Appropriations reports – CRS.gov
• Appropriations status table – CRS.gov
• Expired and expiring authorizations of appropriations – Congressional Budget Office, previously titled Unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations
• Archived government websites
• Congressional and federal government web harvests – National Archives
• United States congressional web archive – Library of Congress

B

• Bill – see Legislation
• Bill of Rights
• Bill of Rights – National Archives resource
• Bill of Rights – Library of Congress resource
• Biographical directory of the United States Congress (1774- )
• Books – Library of Congress online catalog
• Borrow books and other resources from the Library of Congress
• Borrow books and other resources from the Senate Library (Senate access only)
• Browse lists – view items filtered by selected criteria and congresses on Congress.gov
• Budget, budget process – see also Appropriations and Budget Research Guide
• Budget of the United States government – Government Publishing Office
• budget resolution [glossary term]
• Bulk data in XML – Congress.gov bill status data

C

• C-SPAN – live TV and radio coverage of proceedings of the U.S. Congress
• Calendars
• calendar [glossary term]
• See Calendars and Schedules Research Guide
• Capitol Police
• Capitol Visitor Center (CVC)
• Caucuses – House (115th Congress) | Senate
• CBO – Congressional Budget Office
• CBO publications
• Cost estimates for bills
• CBO – Congressional Budget Office[glossary term]
• Census Bureau
• Congressional apportionment
• Fast facts for Congress
• Center for Legislative Archives – National Archives repository of congressional records
• Century of Lawmaking (1774-1875) – Library of Congress repository of congressional documents and debates
• CIA World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
• Annual edition – Government Publishing Office (1996-)
• Code of Federal Regulations historical collection – Library of Congress (1938-1964)
• e-CFR – Government Publishing Office
• Committee reports
• Congress.gov resources
• About committee reports of the U.S. Congress
• Browse House reports | Senate reports | Executive reports
• Search for committee reports
• Related glossary terms
• committee report
• conference report
• congressional report
• executive report
• joint explanatory statement
• Committees
• Congress.gov resources
• About committee hearings of the U.S. Congress
• About committee data – congressional committee profiles
• Committees of the U.S. Congress resource page
• House Committee hearings and meetings video
• Legislation with actions related to committees – House | Senate
• Related glossary terms
• committee chair
• committee-related activity
• committee / subcommittee
• Committee of the Whole
• conferees
• conference committee
• hearing
• jurisdiction
• markup
• Committee websites – may include transcripts of hearings, markups, and reports
• House committees
• Senate committees
• Communications
• Congress.gov resources
• About communications to the House
• About communications to the Senate
• Browse communications to the House (114th Congress-, 2015-) | communications to the Senate (96th Congress-, 1979-)
• Browse communications to the House (101st Congress-, 1989-)
• Search for House communications
• Search for Senate communications
• Related glossary terms
• communications
• executive communication
• memorial
• petition
• presidential message
• Congresses
• Congresses – Congress.gov field values list of congresses and corresponding years (70th Congress-, 1927-)
• congress (i.e. 2-year time frame) [glossary term]
• Congress.gov – About Congress.gov resource page
• Congress.gov Notifications – subscribe to this email alert for news and information on new features and functions, system outages, and other items of interest to the Congress.gov community
• Congressional agencies
• CBO – Congressional Budget Office
• CRS – Congressional Research Service
• GAO – Government Accountability Office
• GPO – Government Publishing Office
• LOC – Library of Congress
• Congressional apportionment
• Congressional apportionment – Census Bureau
• Congressional apportionment census 2010 – Census Bureau
• Congressional apportionment census 2000 – Census Bureau
• Congressional apportionment – House of Representatives
• Congressional directory – Government Publishing Office official directory
• Congressional districts
• Fast facts for Congress – Census Bureau data on US, states, counties, congressional districts
• Maps – National Map Small-Scale Collection, a collaborative effort among the U.S. Geological Survey and federal, state, and local partners (106th-114th Congresses, 1999-2017)
• Congressional documents – Government Publishing Office, selected House of Representatives and Senate documents
• Congressional Gold Medal recipients – House of Representatives
• Congressional Quarterly (subscription required for full access)
• Congressional Record – see also Daily Digest
• About the Congressional Record
• Get the app in iTunes
• Most recent issue | Browse by date | Search
• Congressional Record [glossary term]
• Congressional Record Index – topical access to remarks and activities by Members, individuals, organizations, and legislative business mentioned in the Congressional Record
• Constitution Annotated – Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation – Legal analysis and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, based on Supreme Court case law
• Featured topics and cases
• Constitution Day – Library of Congress resources for teachers
• Copyright Office – Copyright Office
• County governments – National Association of Counties
• CRS – Congressional Research Service
• About CRS
• CRS.gov
• CRS – Congressional Research Service [glossary term]
• C-SPAN (Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network)

D

• Daily Digest – see also Congressional Record
• Browse by date
• Most recent issue
• Daily Digest[glossary term]
• Data.gov – machine readable data sets of the executive branch; launched May 2009 by Federal CIO Council
• Days in Session calendars for U.S. House and U.S. Senate – see also Calendars and Schedules Research Guide
• Declaration of Independence – Primary Documents in American History – Library of Congress web guide

E

• Email alerts – subscribe to RSS and email alerts related to congressional activity and legislation
• Embed a search box – For instructions and code, go to How to Embed the Search Box on Your Website
• Ethics
• House ethics manual (PDF) and other documents from the Committee on Ethics
• Senate ethics manual (PDF) and other documents from the Select Committee on Ethics
• Executive business
• Archive of Senate Executive Calendars – See also Calendars and Schedules Research Guide
• Related glossary terms
• executive business
• Executive Calendar
• executive session
• Executive orders
• Codification of presidential proclamations and executive orders – National Archives (1945-1989)
• Executive orders – National Archives (1994-)
• Executive orders disposition tables index – National Archives, disposition tables listing the status of Executive Orders (January 8, 1937-January 20, 2017)
• Presidential actions – White House
• Presidential documents guide – National Archives
• Expired and expiring authorizations of appropriations – Congressional Budget Office, previously titled Unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations

F

• FAQ – Frequently asked questions about Congress.gov
• Fast facts for Congress – Census Bureau data on the U.S., states, counties, and congressional districts
• Federal budget – Government Publishing Office
• federal depository library [glossary term]
• Federal judiciary
• Courts – U.S. Courts
• Judges – U.S. Courts
• Federal Register
• About the Federal Register – Government Publishing Office
• Browse the Federal Register – Government Publishing Office
• Most recent issue – Government Publishing Office
• Office of the Federal Register (OFR) – National Archives
• Regulations.gov and its frequently asked questions page – find and comment on Federal Register documents
• Federalist Papers
• About the Federalist Papers
• Feedback – submit a survey to Congress.gov
• FindLaw – case law, forms, find a lawyer

G

• GAO – Government Accountability Office
• Federal Vacancies Act reports. Use the GAO Reports & Testimonies tool to find Federal Vacancies Act reports and more.
• Today’s reports (and previous reports)
• Global Legal Monitor – Law Library of Congress
• Glossary of legislative process terms
• Government Manual – official handbook of the federal government jointly published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives, and Government Publishing Office
• Government Research Guide – links to legislative, executive, judicial, state, local, and international government resources
• GPO – Government Publishing Office
• Authenticated digital publishing
• govinfo – access to official publications of the federal government
• GPO – Government Publishing Office [glossary term]

H

• Hearings – committee/subcommittee hearings
• Browse and search
• Browse select congressional hearings – Government Publishing Office (87th Congress-, 1961-)
• Browse select congressional hearings – Law Library of Congress (60th-109th Congresses, 1908-2006)
• Resources
• House committee hearings and meetings video – Congress.gov resource
• Quick links to committee hearings , transcripts, etc. – Law Librarians’ Society
• Text of select House transcripts , listed by committee – House of Representatives
• hearing [glossary term]

• Help pages – Congress.gov
• About Congress.gov
• Congress.gov Enhancements
• Coverage dates for legislative information
• Frequently asked questions
• Legislative documents that predate authenticated digital publishing
• Linking to Congress.gov

• The Hill
• History of Bills – Government Publishing Office (98th Congress-, 1983-)
• Browse History of Bills – updated day after Congressional Record published
• Advanced search
• House manual – Constitution, Jefferson’s Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives
• Latest PDF | Archive – Government Publishing Office (104th Congress-, 1995-)
• House manual in XML – usgpo/house-manual – GitHub – United States Legislative Markup (USLM) project
• XML bulk data – Government Publishing Office
• House of Representatives – see House of Representatives Research Guide
• House precedents
• Cannon | Deschler | Hinds – Government Publishing Office
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (Latest PDF)
• House Practice archive – Government Publishing Office (104th Congress, 1995-1996), (108th Congress, 2003-2004), (112th Congress, 2011-2012), (115th Congress, 2017-)
• Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives – Government Publishing Office
• House Rules Committee
• House standing rules Latest PDF Office of the Clerk-prepared version (116th Congress) | Archive
• Rules committee resources – House of Representatives rules, House manuals, rules of the committees, and surveys of activities of the House Rules Committee
• House Rules committee [glossary term]
• How Our Laws Are Made – Learn About the Legislative Process – Congress.gov resource

I

• International
• CIA World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency
• Foreign government websites – Northwestern University Library
• Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) – Northwestern University Library
• International law – United Nations
• International organizations – Library of Congress guide
• international agreement [glossary term]
• Issues in Focus – browse reports and analysis – CRS

J

• Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) publications – official estimates for tax legislation considered by Congress
• Joint meetings and sessions of Congress – House of Representatives
• Judicial vacancies – U.S. Courts

L

• Law Library of Congress
• About the Law Library
• Browse Law Library Reports – The Law Library of Congress produces reports primarily for Members of Congress
• Guide to law online
• Legal topics
• Laws
• Public laws
• Private laws
• Leadership
• House leadership – Speaker, majority and minority leaders, whips, etc.
• House leadership and officers (1789-) – House of Representatives History, Art & Archives
• Senate leadership – President of the Senate, President Pro Tempore, majority and minority leaders, whips, etc.
• Senate party leadership – Democratic Conference, Republican Conference, party policy committees, historical lists
• Legislation – see also Amendments, Legislative Process
• Browse reports on Congress.gov (93rd Congress-, 1973- unless otherwise noted)
• Action on legislation – Browse by date – also called Yesterday in Congress, includes legislation introduced, reported, passed, and considered by the full House or Senate each legislative day
• Bill and law texts received today
• Bills by policy area term
• Bills introduced as private legislation
• Bills introduced by request
• House and Senate amendments (97th Congress-, 1981-)
• Legislation with actions related to committees – House | Senate
• Legislative actions – reports of legislative actions taken per Congress and related bills
• Most-viewed bills on Congress.gov (113th Congress-, 2014-)
• Sponsors and cosponsors – House | Senate – browse legislation by sponsor or cosponsor
• Resources
• Active legislation – Senate finding aid
• Finding congressional documents from the past – Law and Technology Resources for Legal Professionals (LLRX) guide
• Finding U.S. government documents – Library of Congress guide
• Types of legislation – see Common Versions of Bills table – Government Publishing Office
• Related glossary terms (jump past glossary terms)
• amendment
• amendment in the nature of a substitute
• bill
• bill summary
• budget resolution
• companion measure
• concurrent resolution
• continuing resolution (continuing appropriation)
• engrossed measure
• enrolled measure
• identical bill
• joint resolution
• measure
• notes
• official title
• original bill
• policy area term
• popular title
• private bill
• procedurally-related measure
• proposed/offered Senate amendment
• related bill
• reserved bill number
• short title
• simple resolution
• slip law
• special rule
• subject
• submitted Senate amendment
• title
• Legislative histories
• Center for Legislative Archives – search and browse National Archives repository of congressional records
• Federal legislative history research guide – Law Librarians’ Society guide to producing legislative histories
• Legislative histories of selected US laws on the internet – Law Librarians’ Society resource
• Legislative process – see also Amendments, Appropriations, Committees, Legislation, Vetoes
• Enactment of a Law – by U.S. Senate Parliamentarian – Congress.gov resource
• Legislative process videos – Congress.gov videos that explain common legislative phases
• Related glossary terms (jump past glossary terms)
• adjourn
• adjournment sine die
• amendment exchange
• bicameral
• by request
• cloture
• cosponsor
• enacted
• en bloc
• filibuster
• germaneness
• hearing
• hold
• hopper
• journal
• legislative action steps
• legislative interest
• markup
• motion to proceed to consider
• motion to recommit
• motion to table
• ordered reported
• parliamentarian
• party caucus / conference
• ping-pong
• point of order
• previous question
• pro forma session
• quorum
• quorum call
• referral
• reported
• sponsor
• supermajority
• suspension of the rules
• unanimous consent agreement
• unanimous consent request
• veto
• legislative subject term [glossary term]
• Library of Congress (LOC)
• Finding U.S. government documents at the Library of Congress
• LIV – Legislative Indexing Vocabulary [glossary term]
• Lobbying disclosure – House | Senate

M

• Markups
• House committee websites – some provide the text of selected markups
• Senate committee websites – some provide the text of selected markups
• markup [glossary term]
• Media galleries – House | Senate
• Members of Congress – find members and see sponsored and cosponsored legislation on Congress.gov
• About congressional member profiles – Congress.gov
• Biographical directory of the United States Congress (1774-)
• Congressional directory – Government Publishing Office, official directory of the U.S. Congress
• Find your representative by zip code – House of Representatives finding aid
• Guide to House and Senate members – Government Publishing Office

N

• NARA – National Archives and Records Administration
• Center for Legislative Archives
• Congressional and federal government web harvests
• Presidential documents guide
• Public laws: current session of Congress
• Stay updated about public laws
• NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) [glossary term]
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
• News services
• C-SPAN (Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network)
• The Congressional Quarterly (subscription required for full access)
• The Hill
• Politico
• Represent (ProPublica)
• Roll Call
• Nominations
• Congress.gov resources
• About nominations
• Search nominations
• Supreme Court nominations (97th Congress -, 1981-)
• Related glossary terms
• nomination
• privileged nomination
• recess appointment
• Nominations resources
• Cabinet and Supreme Court nominees – Senate
• Federal judicial vacancies – U.S. Courts
• Supreme Court nominations – Law Library of Congress resources
• Nongovernmental organizations (NGO)
• NGO relations – United Nations
• World Association of Non-governmental Organizations (WANGO)

O

• Office of the Clerk – House of Representatives

P

• Party divisions of the House of Representatives – House of Representatives History, Art & Archives (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• phrase searching – see Search Overview
• Policy area term
• Browse bills by policy area term
• Policy area terms – Congress.gov field value list
• policy area term [glossary term]
• President
• The American Presidency Project – Public papers of the U.S. Presidents, hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Codification of presidential proclamations and executive orders – National Archives (1945-1989)
• Compilation of presidential documents – Government Publishing Office, daily and weekly updates including statements, messages, remarks (1993-)
• Presidential documents guide – National Archives
• Presidential libraries – National Archives list of all presidential libraries
• Presidential nominations – see About Nominations
• Presidents, Vice Presidents and coinciding sessions of Congress – Clerk of the House resource (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Private legislation
• Browse private legislation
• private bill [glossary term]
• Project Vote Smart – voting data for members of Congress
• Public laws
• Public laws list – Congress.gov resource
• Public laws: current session of Congress – National Archives list of current public law numbers

Q

• Quick Start Guide (PDF) – Congress.gov user guide

R

• ranking member [glossary term]
• Refine a search using facets (also called filters) – Congress.gov search guide
• Regulations – Code of Federal Regulations – Government Publishing Office | Federal Register – National Archives
• resolution of ratification [glossary term]
• Resume of Congressional Activity – Senate (80th Congress-, 1947-)
• Roll Call votes by the U.S. Congress – Congress.gov browse list (101st Congress-, 1989-)
• Rules, precedents, and procedures
• Committee websites: House Rules Committee , Resources tab | Senate Rules and Administration Committee
• House manual Constitution, Jefferson’s Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives – Government Publishing Office
• House precedents – House practice (PDF), Deschler’s precedents , Cannon’s precedents , and Hinds’ precedents – Government Publishing Office
• House special rules – House Rules Committee
• House standing rules (PDF) – House Rules Committee
• Senate manual
• Senate procedures – Riddick’s Senate procedure – Government Publishing Office | Senate legislative process – Senate resource
• Senate standing rules – Government Publishing Office

S

• Schedules for Congress – see Calendars and Schedules Research Guide
• Search help
• Action search scope notes – Congress.gov help page on legislative actions searches
• Search tips by category – browse Congress.gov search tips
• Search tools overview – Congress.gov help page on search basics
• Senate floor webcast – Senate resource
• Senate – see Senate Research Guide
• Senate manual
• Senate Rules and Administration Committee
• Senate standing rules Latest PDF – Government Publishing Office
• Rules and Administration Committee purpose and jurisdiction
• Rules and Administration Committee history
• Sergeant at Arms – House | Senate
• Sessions of Congress
• Days in session calendars – see also the Calendars and Schedules Research Guide
• Joint sessions and meetings of Congress – House of Representatives (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Presidents, Vice Presidents and coinciding sessions of Congress – House of Representatives (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Saturday and Sunday legislative days of Congress – House of Representatives (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Sessions of Congress (1st Congress-, 1789-) House Clerk’s list and Secretary of the Senate’s list | See also Secretary of the Senate PDF (1st -108th Congresses, 1789-2004)
• Table of congressional publication volumes and presidential issuances (PDF) – Law Librarians’ Society (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Speaker of the House – see Leadership
• Sponsors and cosponsors
• Browse legislation by sponsor/cosponsor – House | Senate | Search
• cosponsor [glossary term]
• sponsor [glossary term]
• State and local government
• State, county and city government websites – State and local government on the Internet
• State legislature websites – Congress.gov resource
• memorial [glossary term]
• Statistics
• Congressional apportionment – Census Bureau
• Congressional districts: fast facts for Congress – Census Bureau data on U.S., states, counties, and congressional districts
• Resume of congressional activity – Senate resource (80th Congress-, 1947-)
• Statutes at Large
• Volumes 1-64 – Law Library of Congress (1st-81st Congresses, 1789-1950)
• Volumes 65-125 – U.S. Government Publishing Office (82nd-112th Congresses, 1951-2011)
• Statutes at Large and the U.S. Code – Law Librarians’ Society research guide
• Statute Compilations
• Subcommittees – see Committees
• Supreme Court

T

• Teacher resources – Library of Congress lesson plans about government, law, and politics
• text similarities[glossary term]
• Think tanks and advocacy groups
• Public disclosure – Senate office of public records
• Lobbying disclosure – House of Representatives office of the clerk
• Think tanks and public interest organizations – University of Michigan documents center, list of political science resources
• Tips – see Search Tips Overview
• Trade agreements – Department of Commerce trade compliance center, text of trade agreements
• Treaties
• Treaty document resources on Congress.gov
• About treaty documents
• Browse treaty documents by topic
• Search treaty documents
• Treaty resources
• Senate Rule XXX: Executive sessions – proceedings on treaties – Senate Rules and Administration Committee
• Treaties and other international acts series (TIAS) – State Department
• Treaties and other international agreements: the role of the Senate (PDF) – Senate Foreign Relations Committee print
• Treaties pending in the Senate – State Department
• Treaty Affairs Office – State Department
• U.S. treaties: a beginner’s guide – Law Library of Congress
• Related glossary terms
• treaty
• treaty document
• Twitter – The Law Library of Congress tweets about legislation and Congress.gov enhancements via @Congressdotgov.

U

• Unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations – Congressional Budget Office (2000-2016); as of 2017, collection is titled Expired and expiring authorizations of appropriations
• Uniform Law Commission
• United Nations international law
• United States government manual – official handbook of the federal government
• U.S. Capitol
• U.S. Capitol – Senate guide
• Visitor center at the U.S. Capitol
• U.S. Capitol Police
• U.S. Code and the classification tables – House of Representatives office of the law revision counsel (OLRC)
• U.S. founding documents resources
• U.S. founding documents gallery – Congress.gov
• Creating the United States Library of Congress online exhibit
• USA.gov

V

• Vacancies
• Federal judicial vacancies – U.S. Courts
• Federal Vacancies Reform Act – Government Accountability Office search tool
• Vetoes – see also Legislation, Legislative Process
• Browse vetoed legislation – Congress.gov resource
• Historical lists of regular and pocket vetoes – Secretary of the Senate indexes (1st Congress, 1789-)
• History of line-item veto notices – Government Publishing Office
• Number of vetoes per President – House of Representatives (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• veto [glossary term]
• Vice Presidents
• Presidents, Vice Presidents, and coinciding sessions of Congress – House of Representatives (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Vice Presidential tie-breaking votes in the Senate – Senate Library, complete list (1st Congress-, 1789-)
• Votes – see Votes in the House and Senate Research Guide

W

• White House
• Website archives – National Archives, Clinton, Bush, and Obama administration websites (1994-)
• White House Executive Clerk’s office recording – (202) 456-2226

X

• XML bulk data – Congress.gov bill status data

Z

• Zip code – Find your representative by zip code – U.S. House of Representatives finding aid
• Last updated 17 Oct 2016