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

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• 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

Parties & Persuasions

• Democratic National Committee

• Republican National Committee

• National Republican Congressional Committee

• National Republican Senatorial Committee

• State Republican parties and candidates

• Libertarian Party and Libertarian Web

• Reform Party of Ross Perot fame

• The Green Parties of North America

• Democratic Socialists of America

• Communist Party U.S.A.

• The New 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"

• 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

General Guides

• The American Presidency a history of the office from Grolier Online

• 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 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

• Congressional votes by representative and subject from Congressional 
  Quarterly

• The Democracy Network Information about and discussion of local 
  elections and issues

• 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

• The Jefferson Project has a comprehensive set of political links

• MSNBC's Eye on Washington lets you follow your lawmakers' actions

• National Political Index links to varied political and government 
  sites and services

• Policy.com offers looks at major national issues from various perspectives

• 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

• Voter and registration demographics from the Census Bureau

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

• Foreign Policy The venerable magazine of international politics

• George Political personalities

• The Media Studies Center is studying how the public feels about 
  political news coverage

• PBS Democracy Project

• Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper

• The Skeleton Closet, a bipartisan listing of character allegations against the candidates

• Slate, Microsoft's magazine of politics and culture