Politics Research Guide

News briefs, reports on current campaigns and issues, and membership information for this human rights organization.

From the US State Department, these handy guides provide information on a country's leaders, politics, economy, and relations with the US.

This US State Department site contains links to US policies on promoting democracy and human rights. Recent congressional activities are tracked.

Brief entries on other countries' political, economic, military, and geographic features.

The successor to the venerable THOMAS site from the Library of Congress, Congress.gov allows you to track current federal legislation, look up recent public laws, and directs you to information on current members of Congress. Also provides access to the Congressional Record from recent years.

Extensive public documents site on U.S. defense policy, military analysis, nuclear non-proliferation, biological weapons, space policy, cyber security, and related issues. Contains agency reports, congressional hearings, and special studies.

Track the voting patterns of elected state and federal officials. Search by issues, politician's name, or by your ZIP+4 code for a list of all of your public officials. Site has a built-in ZIP+4 finder if you don't know all 9 digits.

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.

Here you'll find C-SPAN programs by frequently searched categories, a selection of most popular searches, some well-received "fast finds", and a look into the archive at the most popular programs (by online views) for each day of the year. To customize your search of the C-SPAN Video Library, please type a keyword, a name, the organization or congressional bill you're seeking, into the search box near the top of any page on C-SPAN.org.