U.S. Constitution: Subject Guide: Legislative Branch

From FindLaw.com. Text of Article 1 of the Constitution (which provides Congress its powers and limits).

From the constitutioncenter.org, provides relevant text from the Constitution and interpretation.

Website of the U.S. Congress, the official source for following congressional activity. Here you can follow legislation as it moves through the House and Senate, lookup committee and member profiles, watch video from the House and Senate floor, as well as video of committee hearings.

Includes links to Representatives websites, and Committee websites, Congressional schedule information, vote information and information on legislation before the House.

Includes links to Senators and Committee websites, and information on Legislation and Records, nominations and treaties.

Searchable index from the Congress.gov website.

The official record of the proceedings and debates on the floor of Congress (1994 to the present).

Reports from the office of the President, independent agencies, international agreements, submitted to committees of Congress.

Includes House and Senate Appropriations Hearings. Good for browsing all committees.

Congressional Committee Prints are publications issued by Congressional Committees that include topics related to their legislative or research activities, as well as other matters such as memorial tributes. Some basic categories of Congressional Committee Prints are: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses.

The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress.

From Whitehouse.gov

From the website of the U.S. House of Representatives. Explains step by step how laws are made.

From the website of the U.S. Senate.

From Congress.gov.

From the website of the Library of Congress.

Congressional Research Service report for Congress prepared for members and committees of Congress. From the Congressional Research Service. Opens as a PDF.

From the website of ProQuest Congressional. Easy to follow outline of the legislative process from start to finish.

From ThisNation.com.

From the Congress.gov website. Includes information on how laws are made, the enactment of a law, a glossary, and more.

Use the ProQuest Congressional database to research legislative histories (the documents that are produced by Congress as a bill is introduced, studied and debated).

Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. These publications can include committee reports, analysis by legislative counsel, committee hearings, floor debates, and histories of actions taken.