With document will service as research notes. The United States political system is large and expansive. There are many large rabbitholes one can go down when researching the rules and entities that makeup and run the government.
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Questions:
- What information does this service provide?
- How in-depth / rigorous / scientific is the information?
- What sources is the information drawn from?
- Is there an overall political leaning of the entity?
- What is the political leaning of the individual authors, if there is one?
- Who else, besides Congress, uses this information?
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House Office of the Legislative Counsel
How Our Laws Are Made: A Ghost Writer's View
Their website looks like it is from the early 2000's.