CRS Reports on the U.S. Congress

You can find a nice selection of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports related to the U.S. Congress housed on the House Committee on Rules' Web site. The free, online reports are listed under the following categories:

• Congress: The House
• Introduction & Origin of Legislative Measures
• House Committees
• Congress: The Senate
• Relations With The Senate
• Presidential Relations
• House Floor Proceedings
• Special Rules and the Rules Committee
• Budget Process

Looking for CRS Reports on a Different Topic?

Don't forget, Open CRS is a great place to start when looking for CRS reports on a wide variety of topics. Open CRS also has links to other repositories. Not only can you access 6 additional online collections from their "collections" page, but you can also get RSS feeds for each so you can keep track of recent additions.

Follow U.S. House & Senate Floor Action on Twitter

Thanks to Jim Milles for pointing out that you can now follow floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and Roll Call votes of the U.S. Senate on Twitter. Who knew? Well, other than Jim, apparently the 164 Twitterers who are currently following SenateFloor and the 247 following HouseFloor. More people follow Jim than either of them!

I will check to see if these are being Twittered by the official offices and get back to you, but you can compare the House Twittered floor proceedings with the House Web site floor proceedings as well as the Senate Twittered Roll Call votes with the Senate Web site Roll Call votes.

If you don't "follow" on Twitter, you can still sign up for the feeds. Here they are:

SenateFloor: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/9855382.rss

HouseFloor: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/7402662.rss

Update (04/05/2008): As I suspected, these are not official Tweets. They are being scraped from the official Web sites. Of course, this probably wouldn't happen if the sites added RSS feeds (hint, hint).