The Civic Mall

The U.S. Government

The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov

    The president's schedule, texts of speeches, press releases, transcripts of press briefings and more.

U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov

    Find and contact your senator, check the Senate's agenda and look up roll call votes.

U.S. House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov

    Find and contact your representative, check the agenda and look up roll call votes.

Tracking legislation in Congress?

    Just go to the Library of Congress' Thomas Web site: http://thomas.loc.gov

     Or use C-Span's Congress Guide. It has a cool feature letting you search for votes going back several years: http://www3.capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/issuesdbq/votesearch.dbq

Missouri

General Missouri government: http://www.missouri.gov

Missouri General Assembly: http://www.moga.mo.gov

Missouri Ethics Commission (campaign finance): http://www.moethics.mo.gov/Ethics/Generalinfo.aspx

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt: http://www.gov.mo.gov

Kansas

General Kansas government: http://www.kansas.gov

Kansas Legislature: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/index.do

Kanas Ethics Commission: http://www.accesskansas.org/ethics

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius: http://www.ksgovernor.org

Need to contact a lawmaker?

Here's a searchable database from MARC of all local politicians. Two clicks gets you to just about every elected official in the area:

http://www.marc2.org/pod/

Don't know your lawmaker?

To find out who your national, state and local public officials are go to these Web sites and enter your address and/or Zipcode

In Missouri: http://www.senate.mo.gov/llookup/leg_lookup.aspx

In Kansas: http://www.ku.edu/pri/ksdata/vote/

Want to learn something?

Truman Presidential Museum & Library: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/

    For a schedule of events at the library: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/programs.htm

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics: http://www.ku.edu~dole/

    For news about the institute: http://www.ku.edu/~dole/news/index.html