American Government and Politics: Web Sites

Congress | Presidency | Candidates, Parties, and Elections | Judiciary
Constitution | Issues and Interest Groups | News

* See also the Meriam Library's Government Documents homepage for many more government links.
Congress
  • Branches of the U.S. Congress:House of Representatives | Senate | Library of Congress
  • Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

    • The directory allows you to search for current and former members of Congress (1774-present) by name, position, or state. Information includes birth and death dates, education, employment, and election history.
  • Lexis-Nexis Congressional
    Full text information on bills, testimony, hearings, and reports. Also included are member and committee directories. (For CSU, Chico faculty, staff, and students only.)
  • Enacting Public Policy: An Interactive Legislation Research Tool

    • How a bill becomes a law and more... Provides a guide to the sources for primary documents and policy reports that affect the priorities and passage of legislation.
  • Project Vote-Smart

    • A record of positions and votes of all members of Congress. This site intends to be a voting guide by providing enough information about elected representatives to help you make an informed choice.
  • THOMAS
    A free source for congressional legislation. This source duplicates many of the resources offered through Congressional Universe, but it is accessible to anyone interested.
Presidency
  • White House
  • POTUS (Internet Public Library)
    POTUS stands for the President of the United States. This site contains biographies and other information about American Presidents.
  • The Roper Center
    Contains reports on presidential popularity polls.
  • Executive Branch Web Sites
    Links to official US Executive Branch web sites.
Judiciary
  • Federal Courts
    Information and statistics about the activities of the Supreme Court, US District Courts, and Circuit Courts of Appeal.
  • United States Supreme Court (official page)
    Featuring opinions, orders, and calendar.
  • Legal Information Institute
    Contains highlights of the current Supreme Court term, law events recently in the news, court opinions, biographies and much more.
  • Jurist
    The Legal Education Network at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
  • California Courts
    News, recent proposals, site map, program and reference information, and much more.
Constitution
  • The Constitution (Yale University)
    Includes history and development of the Constitution
  • The Federalist Papers (Library of Congress)
    A collection of all the Federalist Papers by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton.
  • Declaration of Independence (National Archives)
    Contains links to other historical documents and links to information about the Declaration of Independence.
Candidates, Parties, and Elections
  • C-SPAN

    • Coverage of political events stored in Real Player format for viewing on your computer screen.
  • Historic Presidential Election Party Platforms (University of California - Santa Barbara, The American Presidency Project)
    Only provides platforms for parties receiving electoral votes in the general election. (1840- )
  • Party Platforms (current): Democratic, Republican (TBA), Green, Reform Party USA (TBA), Libertarian
  • Politics1
    Get educated and cast your vote! Links to candidate homepages and provides information about candidates and political parties. See also more election information from the Meriam Library for California and the U.S.
  • Project Vote Smart
    Get educated and cast your vote! A source for nonpartisan, in depth candidate information.
  • Center for American Women and Politics
    Bigraphical and issue information about women in American politics. Examples include gender gap and voting patterns, winners and losers in the 2000 election, and women-focused interest groups.
Issues and Interest Groups
News
  • Lexis/Nexis Academic
    Magazine, journal, newspaper, and media transcripts from hundreds of news outlets. (For CSU, Chico faculty, staff, and students only.)
  • All Politics

    • News from Washington, D.C. as reported by CNN.
  • CQ Weekly
    15 years of weekly news from Capital Hill. (access limited to CSU, Chico)
  • Sacramento Bee
    The capital newspaper of California.
Page created by Kathi Carlisle Fountain (2000) and updated by Cynthia Bynoe (2002).

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last updated: 8-5-2004