Welcome to the Congress Project!

The Congress Project provides stories and context behind important legislation considered by the U.S. Congress. It also includes links to published research readers can consult for further information. These stories and context most commonly take the form of detailed legislative histories written by undergraduate researchers and edited by faculty. In other cases, it may be a set of assorted notes, citations to other work related to the measure and other information.

Under the direction of Professor Anthony Madonna, the website is still in its early stages. We have over 60 written legislative histories and over 2,000 sets of assorted notes that we started systematically posting here on June 15, 2018. Please consult the "Recent Updates" page for measures and notes added.

This project spun out of an undergraduate research and data collection project that originated at the University of Georgia in 2010. The data collection project, co-supervised with Professor Michael Lynch, is discussed in greater detail at https://www.tonymadonna.com/uga-congress-project/.