The website www.senate.gov has been around for over a decade and during that time the site has gone through several incarnations and revisions. Most recently, the site was completely redesigned, and is worth several visits. Visitors to the site will definitely want to take a look through some of the primary areas accessible directly from the homepage, including “Senators”, “Reference”, and “Committees”. In addition to containing copious amounts of information about each senator and committee, the site also contains a complete floor schedule for the Senate, along with “This Week in Senate History”, which contains a brief historical narrative on events in the Senate’s distant (and not-so distant) past. The real treat here is the “Art & History” area, which allows visitors access to oral histories of the Senate and brief essays by Senate historian Richard A. Baker discussing the development of the Senate over the past two hundred or so years.
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