FINDING INFORMATION ON: U.S. CONGRESSIONAL BILLS, FEDERAL SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES, STATE OFFICIALS, AND NATIONAL/LOCAL MEDIA
We have prepared this page to simplify your search for information on Bills before Congress, and/or your efforts to get in touch with Senators, Representatives, and the media. Please contact us, if you find a broken link. We want to keep this list of links up to date.
Information on the status of Bills before the current Congress: Go to Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet at http://www.thomas.loc.gov
If you know the number of a Bill before the Senate - for example: S. RES. 56 for a Senate Resolution, or S. 1561 for a Senate Bill, enter the number in the "Bill Number" box and click on "Search".
If you know the number of a Bill before the House - for example: H. CON. RES 384 for a House concurrent resolution, or H.R. 4892 for a House Bill, enter the number in the "Bill Number" box and click on "Search".
If you only know: the general topic of the Bill, or a phrase that is definitely in the Bill, or a word that is in the Bill, then enter the topic, phrase, or word in the "Word/Phrase" box and click on "Search".
The search engine should return a list of Bills containing the exact phrase that you entered, ranked in order of relevance.
To write to your Federal Senators and House members: Go to http://www.congress.org/. Select the Congress radio button, select a state, and click on the "GO" button beside the state.
House of Representatives:
An alphabetic list of Representatives' web sites is maintained at http://www.house.gov/
This list also allows a search by Zip code and State. It has a form to send an Email to the your representative.
The Senate:
Go to http://www.senate.gov/, select your state from a pull-down list, and click on "Go".
You should get the names of your two current senators. Clicking on a Senator's name will take you to the Senator's home page. They all have an Email link so you can send a letter to their office.
The page has lists of: Committee Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Ranking Minority Member, members, schedule, hearings, etc. Subcommittees associated with a given committee, schedules, and hearings. A description of the jurisdiction of the committee: areas that it deals with. "Hot topics" are the "Press Releases" of the various committees.
