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The Government

• The White House
• The House of Representatives
• Hill Source, from the House Republican Conference
• The Speaker's News Page from the House Speaker's office
• Freedom Works, from the office of the House Majority Leader, Dick Armey
• House Whip's page includes House proceedings and an updated image of the floor
• House Democratic leadership page
• House Rules Committee has House rules, schedules and information on how Congress works
• The Senate
• Senate Republican Policy Committee
• Senate Democratic Policy Committee
• The Judiciary
• The Supreme Court
• Congressional Pictoral Directory Pictures of members of Congress in PDF format
• Congress.org provides information on Congress, its committees and its members
• FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
• Federal Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
• Federal Web Locator allows searching
• Federal Information Exchange
• National Governors' Association
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• New York State Government Information Locator

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Parties & Persuasions

• Democratic National Committee
• Democrats.com has relaunched as an online community site for Democrats
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
• Republican National Committee
• National Republican Congressional Committee
• National Republican Senatorial Committee
• State Republican parties and candidates
• 2000GOP.com Follows Republican campaigns
• Libertarian Party
• Free-Market.net Extensive collection of Libertarian links
• Reform Party of Ross Perot fame
• The Green Parties of North America
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Communist Party U.S.A.
• Socialist Party U.S.A.
• The New Party
• Natural Law Party
• United States Taxpayers Party
• Third Party Time? Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has analysis and links to other sources
• Information Headquarters for the Republican Primary
• Turn Left: The home of liberalism on the Web
• ConservativeNet searches only conservative sites on the Web
• The Right Side of the Web
• Right on the Web Conservative views and links
• The Federalist Society Conservative and libertarian thought
• The Christian Coalition
• National Right to Life Committee
• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
• The Electronic Policy Network A collection of liberal publications, think tanks and organizations
• People for the American Way "Progressive" lobbying and activism (interesting information on the Religious Right in politics)
• National Committee for an Effective Congress Political information, voting and finance data from "progressive" viewpoint
• The Campaign for America's Future advocates what it calls "progressive reform"
• The New Democrat Network supports "pro-growth, pro-family" Democrats
• The Interfaith Alliance seeks to counter what it calls religious extremist influence in politics
• American Israel Public Affairs Committee Pro-Israel lobby
• The Feminist Majority
• National Organization for Women
• National Rifle Association
• American Civil Liberties Union
• The John Birch Society
• The Concord Coalition aims to eliminate the budget deficit
• Web Active and NetAction link to a variety of progressive activist causes

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General Guides

• The American Presidency a history of the office from Grolier Online
• Ballot Access News follows efforts to get candidates on the ballot
• Campaign finance information from American University
• CapWeb's Guide to the U.S. Congress
• Cato Institute the libertarian think tank
• Center for Public Integrity studies the impact of money on public policy
• The Center for Responsive Politics provides extensive campaign contribution information
• The Center for Voting and Democracy advocates proportional representation
• Congressional Guide A wealth of information on members and committees of the 105th Congress, from Capitol Advantage
• Congressional Quarterly's Campaigns and Elections
• Congressional roll calls from Congressional Observer Publications
• Council on Foreign Relations tracks the candidates on foreign policy issues
• The Democracy Network Information about and discussion of local elections and issues
• The Empire Page links to major news headlines on politics each day, emphasizing New York
• Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
• Federal Election Commission data in a more useful format, compiled by two former F.E.C. employees
• Follow the Money gives contribution information for state races
• Gender Gap tracks the progress of women in government and the military
• The Gallup Poll
• Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank
• InCongress collects information from interest groups on various issues before Congress
• Intellectual Capital
• Issues 2000 chronicles the positions of Presidential candidates on major issues
• The Jefferson Project has a comprehensive set of political links
• Kennedy School Online Political Information Network from Harvard University
• MSNBC's Eye on Washington lets you follow your lawmakers' actions
• National Political Index links to varied political and government sites and services
• OnlineDemocracy.com offers online voter registraion
• Policy.com offers looks at major national issues from various perspectives
• Political Information searches 5,000 politics and policy web sites
• Political Junkie knows its audience and provides extensive links for them
• Political Site of the Day from Kessler-Freedman
• Political Science Resources an excellent international collection of links
• Pollingreport.com tracks trends in public opinion from various sources
• Project Vote Smart tracks candidates, officials and issues
• Public Agenda provides research on major issues in a nonpartisan manner
• self-gov.org offers a quick test of your political leanings
• Voter and registration demographics from the Census Bureau
• Vote.com uses the Internet to encourage public participation in government
• Votenet has an array of political information, including a fast, easy contribution search
• Voter.com offers a variety of information from all along the political spectrum
• Whitehouse 2000 the (very) early line from Avi Bass of Northern Illinois University

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Political Media & Commentary

• All Politics from Time and CNN
• Atlantic Unbound Politics from the Atlantic Monthly
• C-Span Program schedules and announcement speeches
• eVote, with news and features, calls itself the "political network of record" for the Internet
• Eye on New York Politics A Democratic eye, that is
• Foreign Policy The venerable magazine of international politics
• Freedom Channel says it offers nonpartisan political video on demand 
• George Political personalities
• The Hill Capitol Hill newspaper
• The Media Studies Center is studying how the public feels about political news coverage
• PBS Democracy Project
• Politics 2000 from Salon
• Roll Call Online Capitol Hill newspaper
• The Skeleton Closet, a bipartisan listing of character allegations against the candidates
• Slate, Microsoft's magazine of politics and culture

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