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| | Congress of the United States: Information From Answers.com |
 | | The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. | | | The legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate. | | | The Senate is presided over by the vice president of the United States, who has no part in its deliberations and may vote only in case of a tie; in his absence his duties are assumed by a president pro tempore, elected by the Senate. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/congress-of-the-united-states
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| | FIPS 9-1 - Congressional Districts of the United States |
| | Congressional districts are legislatively defined subdivisions of a State for the purpose of electing representatives or delegates to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress. | | | For a State whose representative is designated "at large"-- for the 98th-102nd Congresses, this applies to the States of Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming-- for the 103rd Congress, this applies to the State of Montana -- the Congressional District is designated as "00". | | | The congressional districts in different States have the same code; e.g., the First Congressional District of Alabama and of Arizona are both coded "01". |
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http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip9-1.htm
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| | United States Senate |
| | The United States Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. | | | United States, although the Senate's advice and consent is required for the appointment of certain executive branch officials, it is not necessary for their removal. | | | The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator," and his or her counterpart as the "junior senator"; this convention, however, does not have any special significance. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/U/United-States-Senate.htm
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| | LLRX -- Update to A Guide to the U.S. Federal Legal System Web-based Public Accessible Sources |
| | Conflicts between state and federal laws are governed by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, which declares that all laws enacted in the furtherance of the Constitution are the "supreme law of the land," and that federal laws have legal superiority over a state constitution or law. | | | The Supreme Court was organized in 1790 with judicial power to review cases arising under the Constitution, the Laws of the United States and treaties. | | | Although Congress has the authority to modify prospectively a judgment of the Supreme Court, in practice, the Court is considered to have the "last word" in United States law. |
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http://www.llrx.com/features/us_fed.htm
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| | United States - Biocrawler definition:United States - Biocrawler |
| | The federal government is made up of the Congress (the legislative branch), the President (the executive branch), and the Supreme Court (the judicial branch). | | | In some states, supreme and lower court justices are elected by the people; in others, they are appointed, as they are in the federal system. | | | The United States also holds several other territories, districts and possessions, notably the federal district of the District of Columbia, which is the nation's capital, and several overseas insular areas, the most significant of which are Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. |
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http://www.biocrawler.com/biowiki/United_States_of_America
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| | Congressional Districts of the United States - 107th Congress |
| | Legislatively defined subdivisions of a State for the purpose of electing representatives or delegates to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress. | | | The Delegate Districts of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are treated as At-Large Congressional Districts. | | | Congressional Districts of the United States - 107th Congress |
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http://minerals.usgs.gov/sddp/doc/faq/congressionaldistrict107th.faq.html
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| | United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 |
| | United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 (ICPSR 0001) contains county-level returns for over ninety percent of all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States representative from 1824-1968, and United States Senator from 1912-1968. | | | It is thus possible to aggregate to the congressional district level all county-level election data (except in the case of split-district counties), and to perform the aggregations for the districts as they were constituted for any Congress. | | | General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990 (ICPSR 0013) contains county-level returns for all elections to the same national and state offices, plus one additional state-wide office (usually attorney general or secretary of state). |
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http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/icp00001.html
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| | political divisions of the United States: Information From Answers.com |
| | Federal law overrides state law in the areas in which the federal government is empowered to act, but the powers of the federal government are subject to limits in the Constitution of the United States. | | | The freely-associated states are the three sovereign nations with which the United States has entered into a Compact of Free Association. | | | The states are divided into smaller administrative regions, called counties in most states — exceptions being Alaska (boroughs) and Louisiana (parishes). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/political-divisions-of-the-united-states
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| | CHAPTER 142 CONGRESSIONAL, SENATORIAL AND ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS |
| | The plan entitled "Reapportionment Commission 2001 Plan of Districting for the Connecticut Congressional Districts" is on file in the office of the Secretary of the State and was published by the secretary on December 26, 2001, and distributed to town clerks and registrars of voters, the Supreme Court, the Superior Court, and the State Library. | | | Said decision confirmed by the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut in bench ruling dated October 17, 1972. | | | 164 C. Constitutionality of said plan was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 18, 1973. |
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http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/pub/Chap142.htm
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| | USDOJ: USPC: Our History |
| | B.A., Southwest Missouri State (1939); J.D., University of Missouri (1948); LL.M., Georgetown University (1958). | | | United States District Judge Frank A. Kaufman, Governor Brendan T. Byrne of New Jersey, and Charles Silberman, author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, were featured speakers. | | | If the parolee was permitted to return to his home outside that state, his supervision was devolved upon the United States Marshal in the district in which the parolee resided. |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/uspc/history.htm
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| | Congressional Directory: Search Tips |
| | The documents that are titled by U.S. state contain information about the congressional members from that state, including the committees on which they have served. | | | He is mentioned as William Thomas in the documents entitled "Congressional Advisory Boards, Commissions, Groups" and "Joint Committees," but his name appears as Bill Thomas in the document entitled "Standing Committees of the House." Thus, a query that specified only one of his first names would have returned an incomplete list of relevant documents. | | | Dir." stands for Congressional Directory, 105 references the 105th Congress, and "Press Galleries" is the title of the document. |
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http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/tips.html
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| | Census 2000 data for the United States |
| | SF 4 is released as individual files for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; and for the United States. | | | Summary File 3 presents data for the United States, the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in a hierarchical sequence down to the block group for many tabulations, but only to the census tract levels for others. | | | The population of the United States on April 1, 2000 was 281,421,906. |
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http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/us.html
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| | Locate a Federal Depository Library |
| | These commonwealths and territories have no Congressional representatives, but do have a non-voting delegate, except Micronesia-FSM that has none, and Puerto Rico that has a resident commissioner. | | | View a listing of all Federal depository libraries: | | | Search FDLs by State, Commonwealth, or Territory |
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http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html
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| | SULAIR: Research Quick Start Guides: U.S. History |
| | The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989 | | | American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States | | | Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Civil Rights (Green Library Information Center KF4749.P626 2002) |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/kkerns/amhist.html
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| | Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |
| | The Office of the Clerk is pleased to announce the launch of Kids in the House–an interactive center that helps kids learn about the United States House of Representatives and its role in lawmaking. | | | Find information about the 108th and previous Congresses in Congressional History. | | | Official List of Members by State [HTML] [PDF] |
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http://clerk.house.gov
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| | Articles - List of United States Congressional districts |
| | Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virgina, West Virginia | | | Articles - List of United States Congressional districts | | | The map below represents the allocation of Congressional districts after the 2000 census. |
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http://www.worldhammock.com/articles/Congressional_district
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| | Congressional Pictorial Directory - May 2002 - Revised Edition - One Hundred Seventh Congress |
| | This document is sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate on the United States Government Printing Office web site. | | | Congressional Pictorial Directory - May 2002 - Revised Edition - One Hundred Seventh Congress | | | The pages retrieved from the online Congressional Pictorial Directory are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
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http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/107_pictorial
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: United States Congressional Districts 1788-1841 |
| | Top of Page : United States Congressional Districts 1788-1841 | | | Look for books like United States Congressional Districts 1788-1841 by subject: | | | One has to wonder why no one had thought to compile this information before....Scholars of the American political scene will welcome this work....A required acquisition for the research collection of all libraries.”– |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0837198283
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| | Legislative Histories [Frame Enhanced] |
| | Since July 18, 1996 this page has been accessed | | | if your browser is not displaying a list of extensive resources |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/legishis.html
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