Links and Resources

Congress:

• Look up Legislative Information on the Internet
  http://thomas.loc.gov
• United States House of Representatives
  http://www.house.gov
• Identify and/or Write Your Representative
  http://www.house.gov/writerep/
• United States Senate
  http://www.senate.gov
• Contact Your Senator
  http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm
• National Conference of State Legislatures
  URL: http://www.ncsl.org
  As well as maintaining a database for legislative staff, the site also gives public users access to NCSL reports, meetings schedule, and a gateway to state legislative sites. NCSL print publications also can be ordered.
• Congressional Quarterly
  The Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report provides comprehensive non-partisan legislative news and analysis for what is happening on Capitol Hill; it is full-text going back to 1983. The CQ Researcher covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, insight into all sides of the issues and bibliographies; it is full-text going back to November, 1991.

Federal Agencies:  

• Social Security Administration: http://www.ssa.gov  
• National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov  
• National Institutes of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov  
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: http://www.samhsa.gov/  
• Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov  

Other federal agency web pages are listed at the following sites:

• Official US Executive Branch Web Sites  
• http://www.healthfinder.gov