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Current bills (and public laws from several previous Congresses) recently receiving coverage in newspapers and in TV and radio news. Bills are from the 106th Congress unless otherwise noted; Public laws show the Congress of their passage in their title: i.e. P.L. 104-95 was passed into law in the 104th Congress.

C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Their mission is to provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming.

Links to resources about government issues making headlines in the news. Maintained by the University of Michigan Library.

An online newspaper that reports on Congress and the Federal government. It breaks news down by Senate, House, Administration, Campaign and Business and Lobbying. It also reports on the News by Subject, Blogs, Technology, Opinion, Capital Living, Jobs, Resources, and Special Reports. This is a vast amount of information and even has an archive of previous stories.

Roll Call is widely considered the leading source for Congressional news and information both inside the Beltway and beyond. In 1996, building on the solid reputation of the newsprint version, Roll Call launched a companion Web edition. The leading stories from the newspaper are posted every Monday and Thursday, along with editorials, election news, commentary, cartoons and classifieds.

There is no better source for current, up-to-date news than newspapers. The above four titles are only a few of the titles held in the MSU Library. Also consult the Lexis-Nexis Academic database which contains full-text of these and other national newspapers, some going back as far as twenty years.