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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the United States Congress, including:

  • former and current members, leaders, and employees of both houses,
  • sessions of the Congress, listing the major political events of that time, as well as all the members of that congress,
  • election cycles,
  • congressional districts,
  • procedures, customs, histories and buildings, and
  • all other articles relating to the United States Congress;

as well as templates and categories.

Parentage and Similar Projects

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject History. Similar projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states, Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities

Subpages

  • /Bioguide: Discussion of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • /COTW: Proposing a regular Collaboration Of The Week

Participants

Style

Articles

Ordinal congresses

For each election period, a article called xxx United States Congress is created, where xxx is the written out ordinal number, e.g. First United States Congress.

Each article will have two sections:

  • Major Political Events
  • Members of the xxx United States Congress - List of all members, including name, position, party and state of origin.

Officers

Senate Officers

President of the United States Senate (a.k.a. Vice President of the United States) | President pro tempore of the United States Senate | Deputy President pro tempore of the United States Senate | United States Senate Majority Leader | United States Senate Minority Leader | United States Senate Majority Whip | United States Senate Minority Whip || List of Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate

Senate Democratic Officers

United States Senate Democratic Whip | United States Senate Democratic Conference Chairman | United States Senate Democratic Policy Committee Chairman | Democratic Conference Secretary | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Senate Republican Officers

United States Senate Republican Whip | United States Senate Republican Conference Chairman | United States Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman | United States Senate Republican Conference Secretary | National Republican Senatorial Committee

House Officers

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives | Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives | Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives | Minority Whip of the United States House of Representatives || List of Speakers of the United States House of Representatives

House Democratic Officers

United States House of Representatives Democratic Conference Chairman

House Republican Officers

United States House of Representatives Republican Conference Chairman

Employees

Architect of the Capitol | Capitol Police Board | United States Capitol Guide Service

Senate Employees

Secretary of the United States Senate | Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper | United States Senate Chaplain

House Employees

Clerk of the United States House of Representatives | Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives | Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives | Reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives | Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States House of Representatives | House Office Building Commission

Facilities and Agencies

United States Capitol | Library of Congress | United States Botanic Garden | Capitol Power Plant | Office of Interparliamentary Affairs | Congressional Subway | Congressional Cemetery

Senate Facilities and Agencies

Russell Senate Office Building | Dirksen Senate Office Building | Hart Senate Office Building | Senate Building Beauty Shop | Senate Staff Health and Fitness Facility | Senate Photographic Studio | Senate Recording Studio | Senate Computer Center |

House Facilities and Agencies

Cannon House Office Building | Longworth House Office Building | Rayburn House Office Building | Ford House Office Building | House Recording Studio | House of Representatives Office of Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Operations

History

Sources

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a biographical dictionary of all members of both houses of the Congress of the United States, past and present. It is a useful and relatively reliable biographical source for any political figure who served in the Congress.

For more information on the use of the Bioguide and the status of importing information from it, go to this project's subpage, /Bioguide.

Templates and Infoboxes

U.S. Senate

Current Congress: Template:U.S.A. State Congressional Delegation, which uses [[Template:{{{StateSymbol}}}-FedRep]], makes: Template:U.S.A. State Congressional Delegation

Earlier Congresses: Template:US Congress by State makes:

Template:SpeakerUSHouse makes:

Template:USHouseMajLead makes:

Template:USSenPresProTemp makes:

Template:USSenMajLead makes:

Template:US_house_elections makes:

Template:US_senate_elections makes:

Template:USCongressCommittees makes:

Shortcut

Can someone create a shortcut? Something like, WP:USC or WP:CONGRESS.

To Do

Can someone create a To-do list?

Wikiportal

Perhaps, someday, this project can grow into a Wikiportal!

Categories

Category:WikiProjects

Legislative branch / Congress, in general: Category:Legislative Branch of the United States Government | Category:United States Congress by session | Category:U.S. Congressional agencies | Category:U.S. Congressional committees | Category:Congressional district maps of the 108th Congress | Category:U.S. Congressional districts

People in Congress: Category:Lists of current office-holders | Category:African Americans in the United States Congress | Category:Officers of the U.S. Congress | Category:Employees of the United States Congress

Senate: Category:United States Senate | Category:United States Senators | Category:U.S. Senate committees | Category:U.S. Senate elections

House of Reps: Category:Members of the United States Congress | Category:United States House of Representatives | Category:U.S. House committees | Category:U.S. House of Representatives elections | Category:Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives | Category:Reading Clerks of U.S. House of Representatives

For more, See Category:Congress images

WikiProject U.S. Congress notice

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Progress

Lists are based on http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

Previous Congresses

Current Congress

Future Congresses

See Also

Should this WikiProject include these?

Members

Senate:

House:

Caucuses

Committees

Procedure

(Other)

External Sources and Resources for this Project

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