The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)Chapter 11:
Congress: Balancing National Goals and Local InterestsWeb Links
| United States House of Representatives | | This site and the site for the U.S. Senate are the official websites for each house of the national legislature. These give detailed information on their current committees, party leaderships, formal agendas, and membership. Some history of each house is also found.
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http://www.house.gov
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| United States Senate | | This site and the United States House of Representatives are the official websites for each house of the national legislature. These give detailed information on their current committees, party leaderships, formal agendas, and membership. Some history of each house is also found.
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http://www.senate.gov
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| Congressional Directory | | C-SPAN's online Congressional Directory.
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http://www3.capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir
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| C-SPAN | | This is the home site of the Capitol Hill television station. Included are extensive public affairs and Capitol Hill links.
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http://www.c-span.org/
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| TheHill.com | | This is a Capitol Hill newspaper with insightful articles on both sides of the Capitol.
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http://thehill.com/
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| Campaigns and Elections | | This online magazine contains articles on congressional and other American political campaigns.
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http://www.politicsmagazine.com/
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| The Legislative Process | | This Library of Congress Internet resource page provides links to general descriptions of the legislative process as well as a glossary and specific descriptions of the legislative processes of the House and the Senate.
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http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html
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| The U.S. Constitution: Article 1 | | The text of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution archived in the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.
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http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/art1.asp
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| THOMAS—U.S. Congress on the Internet | | From the Library of Congress, this site includes a site guide entitled "The U.S. Legislative Branch." This is a first-choice site for historical information on recent congresses.
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http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html
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| Send the House Home | | A Salon.com article on the value of employing "web commuting" technologies in the procedures of the U.S. Congress.
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/05/10/virtual_congress/print.html
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| Roll Call | | The online version of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill. The site provides an insider's view of current developments within Congress.
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http://www.rollcall.com/
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| The Center for Legislative Archives | | From the National Archives, this site features extensive historical records of Congress and its members.
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http://www.archives.gov/legislative/index.html
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| The Congressional Institute | | A congressional staff site with a specialty of providing policy assistance to the institution. Its Capitol Hill Orientation Guide—Legislative Resources—is highly recommended for those going to the Hill for work or research.
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http://www.conginst.org
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