Student handout provides the steps for how to pass a bill through Congress.

The Washington Post provides recent, as well as archived, news surrounding the U.S. Congress. PLEASE NOTE THAT A WASHINGTON POST REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO VIEW THESE ARTICLES.

Follow a bill, from its introduction to Congress to its signing by the President. Find out about all the steps in between, including the presidential veto and the Congressional override.

Covers details of the Great Compromise which was presented at the Constitutional Convention. It consisted of the idea of proportional representation in the lower house (House of Representatives) and equal representation of the states in...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features James E. Clyburn, an American politician who served as a Democratic congressman from South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives (from 1993). He was the second African-American and...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features James T. Rapier, a black planter and labor organizer who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama during Reconstruction.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Alonzo J. Ransier, a black member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina during Reconstruction.

The Three-Fifths Compromise that was presented at the Constitutional Convention resolved the issue of counting slaves towards the population in regards to representation in the House of Representatives.

Kids learn about the Legislative Branch of the United States Government. It's also called the Congress and is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

A brief biographical sketch of Andrew Young, an American politician, civil rights leader, and clergyman who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1973-77) and later was mayor of Atlanta (1982-90).

How do political leaders solve political problems? This lesson is an example of how compromise is a vital part of our democracy. Students will be able to visually see the effects of the Three-Fifths Compromise on the United States House...

This Wikipedia page provides a map of Ohio's congressional districts, portraits of all of Ohio's members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Links under each portrait take the user to biographies and to information about the individual...

A map of the United States showing the results of the 1824 presidential election. The 1824 election is unusual in that all of the candidates were from the same Democratic-Republican party, and being the only time since the passage of the...

A map of the United States in 1854 showing the results of the test-vote on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in the House of Representatives, which would repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allow territorial settlers to determine if...

A map of the United States showing the progression of suffrage prior to the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution, ratified on August 18, 1920. "The map shows the status of women suffrage, or the right of women to vote on an equality...

This National Archives and Records Administration site discusses the select committee to investigate education, training, and loan guaranty programs under the G.I. Bill.

The official site of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

FOX News covers the latest in United States politics. Impact is presented with television and the internet in mind.

This was the home of attorney Roswell Field, who represented slave Dred Scott in the U.S. Supreme Court case Scott v. Sandford (1857). Also the birthplace of Field's son, author Eugene Field, the house is currently known as the Eugene...

Associated with Cummins founder J. Irwin Miller, the Miller House is a work of Eero Saarinen representing International style. The building is integrated with the modern landscape of Dan Kiley.

The lid of this naos is surmounted by a painted statue of the God Horus which might indicate that it had been used to house a mummy of a falcon. The sides of the naos are decorated by some divinities who are represented standing inside...

The outside of the sarcophagus of Senbi has multicolored decorations that represent the typical facade of an ancient Egyptian house.

The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and...

Students read informational and literary texts in order to gather information about people, events, symbols, and ideas that are representative of the United States of America. Students begin to develop an understanding of the United...