Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sjw31@psu.edu
Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sjw31@psu.edu
Researching a congressperson starts with determining the district the person represents.
Congressional Districts, 110th Congress [printable maps from nationalatlas.gov]
111th Congressional District Maps [ccarto.com]
State Legislative District Data [U.S. Census Bureau data]
List of United States Congressional Districts [Wikipedia]
Members of Congress [GovTrack.us]
Find your Legislator page [Pennsylvania General Assembly]
find your legislators by ZIP code + 4 or by county
Pennsylvania State Senatorial Districts map [PDF] from the Pennsylvania Senate website
Pennsylvania House of Representatives Districts map [PDF] produced by APSCUF, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties
Pennsylvania State House Districts map [PDF] produced by the Pennsylvania State Data Center
The Senators page on the official Web site of the United States Senate
The Representative Offices page on the official Web site of the U.S. House of Representatives
Congressional Directory [Congress.org]
CongressLink.org — "a resource for teachers providing information about the U.S. Congress" with lots of useful information for anyone.
Start at the Pennsylvania General Assembly website:
click the Senate tab to access the Members of the Senate page
click the House tab to access the Members of the House of Representatives page
The Council of State Governments [CSG]
Web site includes a page with links to the home pages of each of the 50 United States, as well as U.S. Territories and Commonwealths, Canadian Provinces, and Taiwan. Once you are at a home page, find the Government link [which may be a tab or header, depending on the individual page's layout] to begin your research.
Votes taken on the floor of the House or Senate can be found in The Congressional Record
The Congressional Record online is available in
Researchers with a Penn State Access Account can use Congressional [ProQuest] to find floor votes back to the 91st Congress [1969-1970]:
Move from the default Congressional Publications search page to the Legislative Histories, Bills, & Laws page [link is on the left]
Choose the Floor Votes radio button
Roll Call Votes back to the 101st Congress [1989-1990] are available in:
The Washington Post Votes Database "lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991".
Pennsylvania Senate roll call votes back to 2007 can be found on the PA Senate Roll Calls page
Pennsylvania House of Representatives roll call votes back to 2007 can be found on the House Roll Calls page
PennsylvaniaVotes.org provides PA Congress voting records back to 2009.
