Capitol Watch On Line offers content on what's going on in the nations capital daily. A dozen or more headline stories plus a special interests section and links to the Federal News Service and other government sites. "Live chat with candidates and the leaders of our nation" is promised to be coming in 2 weeks.

After passing by a comfortable margin in the House, the bill to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China may hit a bit of a rough patch in the US Senate, though eventual passage is all but assured. Opponents of PNTR with China from both the left and right have served notice that they intend to use delaying tactics in order to scrutinize the bill and introduce a number of...

Recently updated by the House of Representatives Parliamentarian, the 22nd edition of How Our Laws Are Made reflects changes in congressional procedures since the last edition was published in 1997. The guide is offered as a plain text document or by chapter in HTML format.

The Vote Smart Web is a new service made available by Project Vote Smart, a non-profit organization that makes factual information about politicians available for free. Project Vote Smart's database is available in conjunction with other sources of political information found on the Internet, and is researcher assisted via an 800 number. Links include the '96 presidential campaign, issues,...

Locating information about U.S. government regulations just got much easier with the Regulations.gov website. Visitors can use the site to find regulations from almost 300 federal agencies, and they can also search for proposed rules, final rules, and also submit comments on pending regulations. First-time visitors can get a feel for the site by looking at the "What's Hot" area, which features...

This extraordinary Website bills itself as "the most comprehensive guide to American government and politics on the net," and from an educational standpoint, it is surely a major contender for the title. To begin with, ThisNation features an extensive library of major documents in American political history, including (but not nearly limited to) the Magna Carta, the Constitution, the Declaration...

Every six years, the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, US House of Representatives, publishes the United States Code, the "codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States." The first seven titles of the 2000 code have been made available this month at GPO Access. The code can be browsed and searched, and search results include citations plus links to the full text of the...