Sometimes you need to go straight to the source. EBSCO's Help menu offers authoritative instruction on creating a strong search; auto-formatting a citation; emailing, batch-emailing, printing, or saving an article; saving articles in a temporary folder; saving a search or email alert for newly published articles on your designated topic, and more.

Online encyclopedia for all things politics- and elections-related. Nonpartisan and not for profit. Sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute.

"GovTrack is the only website that provides free research, tracking, and analytics on the daily activities of the United States Congress... GovTrack is not a part of the federal government." GovTrack.us replaced OpenCongress.org after the latter was retired.

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Fact-checking the claims and speeches of politicians. Run by the independent newspaper, Tampa Bay Times, in partnership with state-specific news sources.

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