Provides a description of political careers and activities of current U.S. senators and representatives. Also includes short pieces on the character of the member's district, and election results. Includes, for example, tables on Congressional concurrences, vetoes, and overrides, number of presidential requests of Congress in State of the Union message, etc. Political Science Abstracts Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from scholarly journals, major magazines, and books devoted to national and international politics and policy analysis. Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from the policy oriented literature of the social sciences, including political science.
Access is through subject and author indexes.
No abstracts are provided. Located on index tables in Reference Room. The former source provides abstracts of articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Additionally, the Legal Research section provides fulltext access to federal and state code and case law, as well as law reviews. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report Provides current non-partisan political analysis of Congress.