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George Burns
Brought to you by Washington Weekly, this is a look at Washington from the citizen’s perspective. Take a look at political speeches from House Speaker Newt Gingrich or President Clinton. Read about political scandals, such as Whitewater. A special section lets you rate some of the news media and submit your input. Includes lists of political newsgroups and links to related sites.
Campaign and Elections Online! is a magazine for political professionals. Includes a bi-weekly, state-by-state report of upcoming elections (for subscribers to C&E Magazine and Campaign Insider Newsletter only). You can check out the changing odds on major national, state, and local races across the country. Browse the National Directory of Public Affairs; Lobbying; and Issues Management Consultants, Products, and Services. Or, check out the political analysis section. Get a subscription to Campaign Insider—a weekly newsletter for political consultants and committees. Also includes C&E’s Buyers Guide; get info on telephone services, media placement, direct mail services, fundraising, and more.
This site’s goal is to improve the quality of debate on campaign finance reform so that a workable approach can be passed by the 105th Congress and signed into law by the president. Examine new approaches to reform; check out articles analyzing the proposed reforms, related opinion pieces, and proposals to Congress. Go to the Public Forum on Campaign Finance Reform to view others’ ideas, analyses, and opinions.
This site offers Republican campaign consulting for the Web by political consultants to help Republicans create a strong presence on the Web. Campaigning On-Line is a Web-page development service offered at fees starting at about $100 per month. This service puts your campaign on the Web. The Webmaster—whose work has been acknowledged as an Internet standard—is skilled at creating appealing Web sites. The politically savvy campaign team has run (and run in) Republican campaigns. The staff editor knows the art of writing for the Web. And the attorney can help keep your Web site out of trouble. Campaigning On-Line can establish your campaign’s Web presence and turn your Web site into an interactive campaign tool. It will also keep your Web site current and up-to-date.
The Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP) is a university-based research, education, and public service center. Its mission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women’s relationships to politics and government and to enhance women’s influence and leadership in public life. CAWP is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Learn about CAWP job opportunities and look at general info. Read publications and press releases. Get highlights from reports and order from the list of recommended books. Sample and learn how to order the CAWP News & Notes newsletter. Read about female candidates in the latest elections.
Get breaking news and stories from TIME, CNN, Congressional Quarterly, and The Associated Press. Check out the cartoons and opinion pieces from the premier pundits of Time, CNN, CQ, and the Washington talk show circuit. Or, visit the In-Depth section for interactive features, sights and sounds, and resources such as biographies and transcripts. Check out two of the nation’s top political analysts, Stuart Rothenberg and Charlie Cook, who dissect the nation’s politics at the Congressional and statewide levels. Offers links to sites about Congress, the White House, think tanks, and political parties. This site is updated continuously, and back issues are available.
Common Cause is a nonpartisan citizen’s organization with the goal of ensuring open, honest, accountable, and effective government at the federal, state, and local levels. Check out studies on topics such as the relationship between money, elections, and voting patterns. Includes articles from Common Cause magazine, which explores issues such as tobacco’s financial ties to Congress, how Congress pays industry—with federal tax dollars—to deplete and destroy the nation’s natural resources, and healthcare and Medicare changes. Tells you how to contact elected officials and gives you links to Common Cause sites for other states.
Use the U.S. Congressional Directory search engine to look up info on any Congress member, state delegation, House committee, or Senate committee. Also get info on the Congressional leadership. Or, enter your ZIP code to find your Representatives and info about them. Find out who is on the various U.S. House and Senate Committees and view info on each person and committee. The Congress Today section keeps you up to date on the House and Senate schedule, as well as each week’s committee hearings.
Get insider access to Congress and your representatives’ votes. Get the latest news or search the voting records of the members who interest you. See how the House and Senate voted on the latest issues and get info on those issues. Provides daily coverage of House and Senate actions and debates.
Congressional Quarterly’s American Voter provides comprehensive, impartial news, analyses, and info on government and politics. Get info about members of Congress, bills sponsored, speeches made, and votes recently taken. In the Rate Your Rep section, you can select a member of Congress and fill out a form with 10 Yes/No questions on your outlook on key issues. Your votes are then compared with the actual votes of your Senator or Representative. Get info on the 105th Congress committee rosters; email addresses of Congress, Senate, and House Democratic and Republican leaders; info on Supreme Court justices, and more. Sound Off! provides a forum where you can post and view messages based on certain topics, such as “Next Election Predictions—Who Will Run and Who Will Win.” Includes links to the best political sites on the Web.
Read The Daily News—news from the DNC—and browse through the archives. Read about where the Democratic party stands on various issues. Check out the transcripts of White House briefings, such as the president’s radio addresses. You can also read through the current year of DNC press releases. Includes info on various Senate hearings, as well as a guide to Republican campaign finance abuses. Also includes Democratic National Committee FAQs. The Get Active! section tells you how to join the DNC, volunteer, and register to vote.
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This Presidential Elections Statistics site is presented by MultiEducator. Check out colorful graphs of the electoral votes cast in presidential elections from 1789 to the present. Download photos of scenes from American history. Read selected documents, such as the Articles of Confederation and the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The MultiEducator American History product lets you access events chronologically, alphabetically, or by topic. Access info on major events in U.S. history and get extensive info on each of the presidents. Audio-visuals highlight major periods in U.S. history, and video clips showcase achievements and tragedies. You can order other MultiEducator products and check out pricing at this site.
The people who practically invented the political public-opinion poll bring you a site that lets you study all the political trends for the entire election season. Gallup Polls, public releases, and special reports on key social and business-related issues are presented. Get info and poll results on current events. Also includes Gallup Special Reports—in-depth analyses of issues that concern people around the world. Includes comments and suggestions to the editors and archives up to March ’96.
The GoverNet Political Channel delivers critical campaign strategy info directly to your desktop. GoverNet offers two primary services for the candidate. The campaign-management software helps organize the campaign, track finances, and create FEC reports. The Political Channel provides current news and info, as well as issues research, to help in the campaign process. You can use the Contacts Database to manage the people involved in a campaign, including voters, volunteers, contributors, consultants, and key contacts—you also can store pictures of these people. GoverNet is designed for every size campaign—local, state, and federal.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy. This site provides info on voter registration, elections, the legislature, government offices, and LWV publications.
Mother Jones is a magazine of investigation and ideas for independent thinkers. Provocative and unexpected articles inform readers and inspire action toward positive social change. Colorful and personal, this magazine challenges conventional wisdom, exposes abuses of power, helps redefine stubborn problems, and offers fresh solutions. The Live Wire Forum lets you participate in several conference discussion areas. The Coin-Op Congress section gives you an in-depth look at what really fuels Washington; you get investigative stories on where the money is going and what it’s fueling. A recent article is “The Mother Jones 400: A List of America’s Biggest Political Donors and Who They Gave To.” You can use the search engine to find certain topics in back issues. This site is updated every Tuesday morning.
Visit this site for political info for voters, political activists, political consultants, lobbyists, politicians, academicians, and media editors. Offers a wide range of products, services, simulations, games, and polling in an interactive communications environment. Gives political activist organizations tactics and logistics info so that they can compete against the massive TV advertising. Check out the hourly political headlines and the info on federal, state, and local elected officials and candidates. Also includes political humor.
Project Vote Smart tracks the performance of more than 13,000 political leaders—the president, Congress, governors, and state legislatures. Get info on issue positions, voting records, performance evaluations, campaign finances, and biographies. Enter your ZIP code, and the search engine looks up who represents you and gives you the relevant info and statistics. Or, track the performance of the 105th Congress. Find out how candidates stood on issues before they were elected and see how your Congressperson voted on a bill. Track the status of legislation as it works its way through Congress; read the text of a bill; and find out whether a bill has had committee action, whether it is scheduled for a hearing or a vote, and whether your Congressperson is a cosponsor.
This site contains a transcript of the program “So You Want to Buy a President,” which aired on the show Frontline (a weekly public-affairs series on PBS). See what Frontline learned about the “rules of the game.” See profiles of the interlocking business and political relationships that dominate the presidential fund-raising game. Read excerpts from conversations with a U.S. senator, a former presidential candidate, and political analysts. Get info and resources about politics, campaign financing, and reform.
This site is brought to you by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Freedom Network. The ACLU feels that Congress is not addressing real campaign reform; it opposes the proposed constitutional amendment that permits Congress and the states to enact laws regulating federal campaign expenditures and contributions, saying that it gives Congress and the states the authority to restrict speech protected by the First Amendment. Check out this site for a full explanation of the ACLU’s views on campaign finance reform and what they’ve been doing about it, as well as their position on certain court cases. You can also browse the ACLU news archive, learn how to contact members of Congress, learn how to use government research tools, and learn how to lobby Congress.
Cloakroom provides commentary, news, and resource materials on politics and policy. It offers online delivery of most National Journal Group daily publications—CongressDaily, The Hotline, American Health Line, Greenwire, and Daily Energy Briefing. Includes a database of polling results and trends. Also offers the 1998 Almanac of American Politics, as well as schedules for Congress. Subscribers to any of National Journal’s daily publications receive access to Cloakroom as a benefit of their subscription. Or, you can just purchase a membership to Cloakroom.
Check out the C-SPAN schedules (C-SPAN and C-SPAN2) and content. Explore the Public Affairs Video Archives. Or, listen to the show Washington Journal. Explore today’s headlines from papers such as the Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Sun-Times, and more. C-SPAN in the Classroom is a great link for teachers and students. C-SPAN’s Majic Bus travels on tours such as one chronicling the history of civil rights in the Deep South. C-SPAN Online Live lets you watch events as they are happening (such as news conferences). Check out the Booknotes program, which presents America’s finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas. The C-SPAN Votes Library database contains all votes from the 105th Congress (updated daily) and the 104th Congress, Second Session. Get info on the U.S. House schedule and weekly committee hearings. Check out the C-SPAN School Bus; currently, it is visiting the communities Alexis de Tocqueville visited and the issues he wrote about in “Democracy in America.”
Check out the Democratic possibilities for 2000 for the presidency, House, and Senate. Look at endorsements of certain candidates or reasons why you shouldn’t vote for them. Includes info on the Republican players for the Executive office, as well as possible senators and representatives. Check out the links to official pages for Republican and Democratic players. Read statements from and endorsements of third-party candidates, such as Ross Perot. Take a look at the under-35 candidates. Examine current issues, today’s news, and party platforms. Includes a history of Campaign 1996.
Co-sponsored by Yale Law School and the Women’s Studies Program at Yale, the Women’s Campaign School teaches a wide range of campaign skills and introduces participants to professionals in the campaign arena. Classes are taught by seasoned campaign strategists and include the latest in campaign techniques. Each student takes part in on-camera training, compiles an individualized campaign manual, and goes on to become part of a close-knit alumnae network. Find out more about the school’s programs, alumnae, board members, and upcoming events at this site. You’ll also get some to great links to related sites.
Get links to info on state elections, including Congressional and gubernatorial.
http://www.clark.net/ccentral/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1411/index.html
http://www.townhall.com/heritage/library/categories/govern/ib230.html
http://www.texas.net/~lookn2it/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html