Selected Telephone Numbers and Web sites with Useful Legislative Information

Part of LLSDC's Legislative Source Book

Prepared by the Legislative Research Special Interest Section of the
Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C., Inc.
Last updated in November 2009

Congress  -  Cong. Support Organizations  -  Executive Branch
State & Local  - Non-Subscription Web Sites - Subscription Sources

Congress

U.S. Senate Home Page (http://www.senate.gov/)
- - Schedule, Senators, Leadership, Committees,
- - Roll Call Votes, Rules, Glossary, History

U.S. House of Representatives Home Page (http://www.house.gov/)
- - Schedule, Members, Leadership, Committees,
- - Roll Call Votes, Rules, Historical Highlights

Capitol Switchboard
- - Senate: 202-224-3121 (Operator assistance)
- - House: 202-225-3121 (Operator assistance)

Daily Floor Action & Scheduling Information
Senate: 202-224-6191 (Republican Cloakroom)
- - 202-224-8601 (Republican Cloakroom recording)
- - 202-225-4691 (Democratic Cloakroom)
- - 202-224-8541 (Democratic Cloakroom recording)
House: 202-225-7350 (Republican Cloakroom)
- - 202-225-7430 (Republican Cloakroom recording - action)
- - 202-225-2020 (Republican recording - legislative schedule)
- - 202-225-7330 (Democratic Cloakroom)
- - 202-225-7400 (Democratic Cloakroom recording - action)
- - 202-225-1600 (Democratic recording - legislative schedule)

Congressional Record Daily Digest Inquiries
- - 202-225-2868 (regarding committee meetings)
- - 202-225-3153 (regarding floor digest)

Senate Documents Room and House Legislative Resource Center
Senate: 202-224-7860 (availability of bills, reports, laws)
- - Room B-4 Hart Senate Ofc Bldg., Wash, DC 20510
- - (mailed requests include self-addressed mailing label,
- - no more than six different items can be requested)
House: 202-226-5200 (availability of bills, reports, laws)
- - 202-226-4362 (to fax requests - up to 12 different items)
- - Room B-18 Ford House Ofc Bldg., Wash. D.C. 20515
- - (mailed requests include self-addressed label)
- - (225-3874 Chief's office - decides bill distribution)

Enrolling Clerk's Office
- - Senate: 202-224-8427 (status of bill enrollment/signatures)
- - House: 202-225-3153 (status of bill enrollment/signatures)

Executive Clerk's Office -
- - Senate: 202-224-4341 (treaties & nominations info)

Law Revision Counsel (http://uscode.house.gov/)
- - House: 202-226-2411 - Assigns U.S. Code classifications to laws;
- - Updates U.S. Code classification tables

Legis Office
- - House: 202-225-1772 (status information from 93rd Congress to present;
- - does not include upcoming scheduling information)

Parliamentarian's Office
- - Senate: 202-224-6128 (Senate procedural questions)
- - House: 202-225-7373 (House procedural questions)

Congressional Support Organizations

Congressional Budget Office Publications (http://www.cbo.gov/) - 202-226-2809

Congressional Research Service Publications - 202-707-7132
- - (Must know CRS report # and they may require you to go through a member of Congress)
- - CRS Reports on House Rules & Practices (http://www.rules.house.gov/CRS_Rpt/index.html)
- - CRS reports on Congress & its Procedures as well as other links (http://www.llsdc.org/CRS-Congress/)

Government Accountability Office - Publications - 202-512-6000 (http://www.gao.gov/)

Government Printing Office; GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/)
- - CFR, USC, Fed. Register, Public Laws, Cong. Rec., Bills, Reports, Hearings, etc.
- - Congressional Document Orders 202-512-2470,71
- - Recording for new GPO Congressional publication sales - 202-512-1809
- - (changed at 8 AM and 2 PM Monday-Friday)
- - GPO Order Desk: 202-512-1800 (non-Congressional materials)
- - Fax orders: 202-512-2250 (all materials)
- - Main Bookstore: 202-512-0132 710 North Capitol St. (8-4pm)
- - Congressional Sales Book Store: 710 North Capitol St.
- - GPO Locator (General Information): 202-512-0000

Law Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/law/index.php) Reading Room: 202-707-5080

Office of Public Records: 202-224-0758 (information on lobbyist registrations)

THOMAS (http://thomas.loc.gov/)
- - Legislative Information on the Internet by the Library of Congress
- - Presidential Nominations, Treaties

Executive Branch Agencies with Legislative Information

National Archives
- - Records of Congress (http://www.archives.gov/legislative/index.html)
- - - - Center for Legislative Archives (202-501-5350 - public accessible committee files 30-50 years old)
- - - - Congressional Collections at Archival Institutions
- - Office of the Federal Register - Contact information: 202-741-6000
- - - - Publications
- - - - Federal Register
- - - - Documents on Public Inspection (tomorrow's Federal Register docs, laws)
- - - - Public Laws (Update Service 202-741-6043)
- - - - Code of Federal Regulations
- - - - Executive Orders of the President - Disposition Tables, Text
- - - - Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

State Department Office of Treaty Affairs: 202-647-1345
- - Treaty Affairs
- - Treaties in Force (listings)

White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/; 202-456-1111)
- - Executive Clerk's Office: 202-456-2226 (recording on bills received, new laws signed, etc.)
- - Press Office: 202-456-2580
- - Obama Executive Orders
- - Office of Management & Budget, Statements of Admin. Policy

State and Local Government Information

State Legislative History Research Guides (http://www.law.indiana.edu/lib/netres/govt/stateurlslist.html; Indiana Univ.)

State Legislatures, State Laws, and State Regulations: Websites & Telephone Numbers (http://www.llsdc.org/state-leg/; LLSDC)

District of Columbia
- - D.C. Council (http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/)
- - - - Legislative Services: 202-724-8050
- - - - D.C. Register: 202-727-5090

Maryland - General Assembly (http://mlis.state.md.us/)
- - State Department of Legislative Services: 301-970-5400
- - Montgomery County Council Legis. Info. Services: 240-777-7910
- - Prince Georges County Public Docs Ref. Library: 301-952-3904

Virginia - General Assembly (http://legis.state.va.us/)
- - Senate Legis. Information Office: 804-698-7410
- - - - Toll Free No. for Virginia residents: Senate 888-892-6948
- - House of Delegates Informaton: 804-698-1500
- - - - Toll Free No. for Virginia residents: House 877-391-3228
- - Alexandria City - Office of the City/Council Clerk: 703-838-4550
- - Arlington County - County Board Chair: 703-228-3130
- - Fairfax County - Board of Supervisors Clerk's Office: 703-324-3151

Other Non-Subscription Legislative Web Sites

Center for Responsive Politics (http://www.opensecrets.org/; campaign contributions, lobbyists)

Center on Congress (http://congress.indiana.edu/; Indiana University)

Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation, A (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html U.S. congressional docs & debates: 1774-1875 - Library of Congress)

Checklist of United States Public Documents: 1789 - 1909 (http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/tools/1909checklist/index.html - via Evergreen State Univ. Library)

CNN's All Politics (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/; news, info)

Congress.org (Capitol Advantage; http://www.congress.org/; Cong. guide, major legis.)

CongressLink (http://www.congresslink.org/ (features historical info - Dirksen Center)

Congress Merge (http://www.congressmerge.com/; who represents you, schedules, committees & subcommittees)

Congressional Bills: Glossary (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/bills/glossary.html; GPO Access)

Congressional Research Service Reports (http://www.llsdc.org/CRS-Congress/ (LLSDC - Links to most all sources for CRS Reports on the Internet)

Contacting the Congress (http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/; web pages, phone numbers, e-mail addresses)

Cornell's Legal Information Institute - U.S. Code (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/; (with links to titles, chapters, sections, popular name table)

C-SPAN (http://www.c-span.org/; video & audio programs, see also news & info on Congressional Material)

Findlaw - U.S. Code, C.F.R., Fed. Register (http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/; with links to titles, chapters, sections, popular name table)

GovTrack.us (http://www.govtrack.us/ - legislative tracking with blogs and more)

Green Papers, The (http://www.thegreenpapers.com/; state & federal election coverage, party & political history, sessions of congress, presidential administrations, etc.)

Legislative Research Guide (http://www.llrx.com/resources7.htm; LLRX.com - links & resources)

Legistorm(http://www.Legistorm.com/ (tracks Congressional salaries, travel, foreign gifts, campaign money, etc.)

Penny Hill Press (http://www.pennyhill.com/ (abstracts of CRS reports and briefs)

Political Graveyard, The (http://www.politicalgraveyard.com/; bios and info on past politicians)

Politics - Washington Post (http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/ (news & other info - must register)

Presidential Pardons - Jurist (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons6.htm; Univ. of Pittsburg Law School)

Project Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/ (candidate facts, election information)

Schedule of Volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (http://www.llsdc.org/sch-v/; LLSDC - 1970 to current & an overview of the Serial Set)

Selected Compilations of Laws and Other Congressional Committee Prints (http://www.loc.gov/law/find/compilations.php#fs; Law Library of Congress)

Sunlight Foundation (http://www.SunlightFoundation.com/ (establishes or funds website projects and grantees that bring greater political transparency)

The Hill (http://www.hillnews.com/; news on Capitol Hill)

U.S. Congress: Votes Database (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ - roll call votes from 1991 to current by the Washington Post)

U.S. Congressional Bibliographies http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/congbibs/ (hearings, etc. 1983+)

Voter Information Services (http://www.vis.org/; advocacy group ratings of candidate records)

Subscription Sources With Legislative Information

BNA (http://web.bna.com/; 1-800-372-1033; comprehensive, subject specific newsletters and daily updates including BNA's Money and Politics Report with lobbyist registrations)

Capitol Advantage (http://www.capitoladvantage.com/; 703-289-4670; legislative info tailored for advocacy & media groups)

Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS) document offprints (now LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions; 800-638-8380, Fax: 301-657-3203 - for fee you can obtain full text in paper of MF of selected congressional documents, but must have CIS doc. number. CIS is now called LexisNexis Academic and Library Solutions)

Congressional Observer Publications (http://www.proaxis.com/cop/; 541-745-7110; complete congressional & state vote information)

CQ.com (http://www.cq.com/; 1-800-432-2250; Coingressional Quarterly's large legislative database with info back to 1985; including CQ Transcripts)

C-SPAN Video Library (http://www.c-spanarchives.org/; 1-877-662-7726; since 1987 recorded floor & hearing tapes available for sale)

Federal Document Clearing House (http://www.fdch.com/; now called Moringside Partners, 202-547-4779; with congressional hearing transcripts & statements now owned by CQ.com)

Federal News Service (http://www.fnsg.com/; 1-800-211-4020; hearing statements & selected transcripts)

FedNet (http://www.fednet.net/; 202-393-7300; live and audio recordings of cong. & reg. hearings & floor debates)

GalleryWatch.com (http://www.gallerywatch.com/; 202-546-9770; large legislative database for Federal govn't & state of Texas)

HeinOnLine (http://www.heinonline.org/; 1-800-828-7571; Federal Registers (1936-present); Congressional Record (1873-present); selected legislative histories; U.S. Statutes At Large (1789-present); U.S. Code & C.F.R. editions (1930s to present): & more

Leadership Directories (http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/; 212-632-4141; Cong., Federal & State Yellow Books)

LexisNexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com/; 1-800-543-6862; huge database with a host of legislative material)

National Journal Group (http://www.nationaljournal.com/; 202-739-8400 - news, markup reports)

Netscan iPublishing (http://www.netscan.com/; 703-536-0600 - State full text legislative & regulatory tracking)

Penny Hill Press http://www.pennyhill.com/ (abstracts of CRS reports and briefs; monthly updates; ordering copies)

Political Resources On-Line (http://www.politicalresources.com/; 1-800-423-2677; candidate & political consultant info)

Roll Call (http://www.rollcall.com/ (news on Congress, politics)

State Net (http://www.statenet.com/; 1-916-444-0840; State & Federal legislative & regulatory tracking)

Votenet Solutions (http://www.votenet.com/; congressional & state campaign software products)

Westlaw.com (http://www.westlaw.com/; 1-800-937-8529; huge database with a host of legislative material)

Maintained by Rick McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian - Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. - Last updated in November of 2009