Isidore's Corner

The Votes of US Senators and Representatives

Plogress offers a listing of the U.S. Senators and Representatives of each of the states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and their votes on varies issues each day that the Senate or House of Representatives is in session.  You can also subscribe to the page's RSS feed for up to date information about decisions of the U.S. Congress.

Political Resources on the Internet

Political Resources on the Net offers links to political parties and resource connections throughout the world.  Links are organized according to geographical region and alphabetically.  Includes links to many obscure political organizations - even in the United States.  Who knew that there was a Royalist Party of America?

Brought to you by the United Nations

The Official Documents of the United Nations contains all sorts of official United Nations documents including all major documents from 1993 and many earlier documents are being continually added.  These documents include Security Council and General Assembly resolutions as well as materials from the Economic and Social Council.  Documents are easily accessible through the onsite search engine.

News of the Nations

IRIN is the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks offering current news about Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.  It also offers RSS feeds.  News is available in text, audio, and visual formats to make it more useful for education.

What are they up to now?

It's in times like this that we may wonder what our government is doing and why.  GovTrack offers up to date information about current issues and events in the US Congress.  You can research bills, track legislation or what your Senator or Congressperson is doing and use any material on the site freely in your own work.  As the site notes, open access to information is necessary in a democracy so here's to the opportunity to avail ourselves of it.

African National Congress

The African National Congress website includes a good deal of information about the organization that played such a major role in the end of Apartheid and faced a good deal of opposition due to their connection with communism during the Cold War.  Still, whether you support them or disagree with them, you can't ignore them and their historical importance.

What did the Congress know and when did they know it?

"American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a 'think tank' that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports."

Some recent papers have dealt with Native Americans and issues involving Stem Cells.