U.S. Legislative Branch 

U.S. House of Representatives

Congressional Representation from Indiana

Indiana Congressional District Map

Indiana Congressional Delegation, 111th Congress

Congressional Delegations from Other States

• Congressional District Maps
• Congressional Directory, 105th to present
• Congressional Pictorial Directory, 105th to present
• U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Senators from Indiana

• Evan Bayh (D)
• Richard G. Lugar (R)

Senators from other States

• Congressional Directory, 105th to present
• Congressional Pictorial Directory, 105th to present
• U.S. Senate

Committees and Committee Action

House of Representatives

Committee FAQs (Clerk of the House)

Committee Activities (Clerk of the House) provides links to Committee Reports and Conference Reports, Committee Schedules, hearings, and oversight plans.

Committee Information (Clerk of the House) provides links to full committee and subcommittee rosters along with contact information.  Also includes official lists of Members with Committee assignments, Standing Committee and Subcommittees, Committee and Subcommittee telephone directory, Committee Reports and Hearings, and guide to Committee jurisdictions.

Committees of the House of Representatives (Thomas) provides links to House committee home pages and membership rosters, schedule of meetings, and definitions of committee jurisdiction.

Committee Offices (U.S. House of Representatives) provides links to Committee home pages and a quick search feature for locating committee membership, subcommittees, schedules of meetings, hearings, committee jurisdiction, hot topics, and web casts.

Committee Reports, 104th Congress to present (Thomas) Not all Committee Reports are available electronically. Thomas provides a searchable index to those that are available online.  For access information to all House and Senate Committee Reports, see IPFW's Web guide to the Federal Policy Process under Committee Action- Prints and Reports

Senate

Committees (Senate) provides links to Standing, Joint, Special and Select Committee home pages, as well as links to membership rosters, Senator assignments and current day hearings and meetings.

Committees of the Senate (Thomas) provides links to Senate committee home pages and membership rosters, schedule of meetings, and definitions of committee jurisdiction.

Committee Reports, 104th Congress to present (Thomas) Not all Committee Reports are available electronically. Thomas provides a searchable index to those that are available online.  For access information to all House and Senate Committee Reports, see IPFW's Web guide to the Federal Policy Process under Committee Action- Prints and Reports

Legislative Process and Legislation

Legislative Process

Enactment of a Law (Senate)

Federal Policy Process provides a guide to documents associated with each stage of legislation as well as administrative and judicial rulings.

How Our Laws are Made (U.S. House of Representatives)

Reports on the Legislative Process provides links to in-depth research reports prepared by the Congressional Research Service on all aspects of the House and Senate legislative process.

Years of Congress Table (University of North Texas) Lists opening and closing dates of each session of Congress from 1789 to present.

Legislation

Legislative Branch Resources (GPO Access) official source for bills, Congressional Record, Congressional Calendars, Congressional Hearings, Reports, Prints, and Documents, laws, and the U.S. Code from 1994 to present.

Thomas: Legislation on the Internet provides tracking and status of Congressional legislation from 1989 to present.

LexisNexis Congressional (IPFW faculty, students, staff only)

Congressional Politics

Congressional Elections, 1996+ (University of Michigan) provides an extensive research guide to resources for tracking elections since 1996.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee

House Democratic Leadership
House Republican Conference

Senate Democratic Leadership
Senate Republican Conference

Procedures and Rules

House of Representatives

Committee on Rules

House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (GPO Access) provides a searchable database of the current House rules and selected precedents, integrating the long-established norms of House procedure with the innovations made possible by technological advances and by reforms and disciplines introduced by laws.

House Rules and Manual (GPO Access) provides a searchable database of the parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives.

Rules and Precedents of the House (U.S. House of Representatives) includes opening day rules from the 106th through the current Congress.

Rules and Precedents that Govern the U.S. House of Representatives (GPO Access) provides a description of the published sources of House precedents and rules.

Hinds' Precedents, 1789-1907 (GPO Access)

Cannon's Precedents, 1908-1936 (GPO Access)

Deschler's Precedents, 1936 to present

Senate Rules and Procedures

Committee on Rules and Administration

Senate Organizations displays in chart form the hierarchy of Senate organization.

Riddick's Senate Procedure (GPO Access) contains the contemporary precedents and practices of the Senate

Senate Manual (GPO Access) provides a searchable database of the rules, orders, laws, and resolutions affecting the business of the United States Senate.

Standing Rules of the Senate links to a table of contents index to the Senate rules.

Voting Records

Government Sources

Roll Call Votes, 101st Congress to the present (Thomas)

Senate Roll Call Votes, 101st Congress to present (Senate)

U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Votes, 101st Congress to present (Clerk of the House)

Commercial Sources

Congress Merge provides individual voting records for the current Congress. Select a state, then a Member, then Voting History under Political Profile.

Congressional Vote Search, 104th Congress to present (C-SPAN) provides a searchable database by subject, member, date, and vote number.

LexisNexis Congressional (IPFW faculty, students and staff only)

Project Vote Smart provides a database of key votes grouped by issue for Congress and state legislators.  Information includes brief biography, vote, description of legislation, and brief legislative history.

Other Sources of Congressional News and Information

All Politics (CNN)

C-Span.Org

Center on Congress (Indiana University)

Congress.Org