Best Sources for Legislative Info

The Government Printing Office recently completed an in-depth analysis of access to legislative information provided by eight government and non-government websites. The report specifically evaluates the availability of legislative resources on all of the databases examined, the scope of the resources on each database, the source of those resources (i.e., whether they house their own content or link to other Web sites for it), and additional legislative resources or features exclusive to comparable Web sites.

The report, "Comparison of Legislative Resources on GPO Access and Selected Government and Non-Government Web Sites, October 2008," and previous reports are available through the Federal Bulletin Board (FBB) at http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/library/compare/. Federal agencies use the FBB as a means to distribute electronic files in various file formats to the public.

The eight websites studied are:

• GPOaccess.gov


• THOMAS


• House.gov


• Senate.gov


• CQ.com


• Heinonline.org


• Lexis-Nexis
  Congressional


• Westlaw.