Voting records, campaign issue positions, performance evaluations by special interests, campaign contributions, backgrounds, previous experience, and contact information are available, over a toll-free Voter's Research Hotline, manuals, and other publications, and the Vote Smart Web site. Also included at this site are the photos and short biographies of current justices, Current Court Calendar, Schedule of Oral Arguments, Last Year's Major Decisions, listing by 1st and 2nd party names of decisions for each year from 1990, the Supreme Court's Rules, Information about the Courts Organization, Authority and Jurisdiction, Glossary of Terms. United States Senate Sections include Legislative Activities, Committees, What's New, Senators, Learning About the Senate, Other Resources, Keyword Search. The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
Sites are also available alphabetically and the entire site is searchable.
The site was prepared by Alan Liu, Dept of English, University of California, Santa Barbara. One of the highlights of the site is the poll section, where interested users can compare their answers to recent questions to poll data from the same questions from Washington Post-ABC News Polls.