The first in a series of Online Issue Briefs presented to congressional offices by the Congress Online Project, this report examines the email overload in Congress. The email flow to the House of Representatives, for instance, more than doubled between 1998 and 2000 and continues to increase by an average of one million messages per month. The report strongly recommends that Congressional offices...

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.