The Hill on The Net
Sites to See

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• Senator Edward M. Kennedy
  The first member of Congress on the World Wide Web, thanks to assistance from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, Kennedy preceded the second Member of Congress on the Web by seven months.
  
  
• Open Government - Canada
  An independently developed resource for locating government information in the Great White North. Inspiration for CapWeb.
  
  
• CapWeb
  An "unauthorized and unofficial" guide to the U.S. Congress on the World Wide Web developed by myself and my colleague, Jeff Hecker. The "Yahoo" of Congress.
  
  
• House of Representatives
  True to form, the lower-chamber of Congress is quicker with hi-tech. The House of Representatives home page was unveiled in January, 1995.
  
  
• United States Senate
  Following the House onto the Web by ten months, the Senate closed the technology gap with a web server that finally allowed Senators to host their home pages on a HTTP server, and with a home page of its own.
  
  
• House Democratic Leadership
  The first home page added to the House's new web server by a Representative or organization. The House Democratic Leadership page set a high-standard for other House home pages.
  
  
• House Republican Conference
  Much improved over the original CobWeb that sat unchanged on the House server for seven months. The re-vamped House Republican Conference page is now new so often it rates monthly mentions in the House's "What's New!" file.
  
  
• The Library of Congress
  The first legislative branch agency to have a presence on the World Wide Web.
  
  
• THOMAS
  Not the first, but the best online access to the Congressional Record and the full text of legislation. Speaker Gingrich's pet project on the Net, THOMAS made Congress take notice of Cyberspace.
  
  
• GPO
  The original source for online access to Congressional documents, the Government Printing Office continues to make a great deal of information about Congress available on the Net.
  
  
• Senate Democratic Policy Committee
  The first home page hosted on a Senate server, delivered via FTP for eleven months before the Senate had an HTTP server. The DPC home page demonstrated to Senators that they could do more with the limited Internet resources available to them.
  
  
• The Medicare Page
  The first special-issue Web resource developed by the DPC, it is likely to be the first of many.
  
  
• Senate Republican Policy Committee
  The Senate Republican view of the world. A very good page.
  
  
• Govline Congressional Committee Transcript Service
  Do you have several thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket? You can buy access to the submitted testimony of witnesses that appear before Congressional Committees. It's your only choice until all committees make the effort to post it to the Net for nothing.
  
  
• Office of Senate Legal Counsel
  The last Senate home page still forbidden to use the Senate's Web server and left to live on the FTP server. Why? I dunno.
  
  
• Office of the House Chief Administrative Officer
  A look inside of the office that's been tasked with straightening out the day-to-day operations of the House of Representatives.
  
  
• Washington GOP Balanced Budget Web Site
  The Republican members of a state delegation pull-together a special issue home page.
  
  
• Internet Multicasting Service: U.S. Congress Proceedings
  Search and listen to House floor debates.
  
  
• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
  The first national campaign committee on the Web.
  
  
• Kennedy for Senate - 1994
  With the help of the DSCC, Kennedy's re-election campaign was among the few campaigns to employ the Net in '94.
  
  
• Tom Campbell for Congress
  Running in a December 1995 special election to fill the seat of retiring Congressman Mineta of California's 15th District, Campbell and his opponent Jerry Estruth took their race to the Net.
  
  
• Jerry Estruth for Congress
  While Campbell's home page was a sharp looking professional effort, the volunteer created Estruth page succeeded in providing more practical details than Campbell's did, but it wasn't enought to avoid defeat.
  
  
• Voters Telecom Watch
  An on-line advocacy group that seeks to protect online rights. VTW's Internet Pledge is an effort to get candidates on the record with their views on issues of concern to millions of Netizens.
  
  
• Wyden for Senate
  Oregon's January 1996 special election to fill the seat of Senator Bob Packwood brought another preview of Campaign '96 on the Net. Both campaigns were on the Net, and both candidates took VTW's Internet Pledge.
  
  
• Sims for Senate WWW Archive
  An example of how the Net can be a historical archive of past campaigns, and perhaps allow candidates to keep a shop open in Cyberspace until they're ready to run again.
  
  
• Bogus Dole for President
  With a domain name that looks legit at first glance, parody pages such as this one are often taken for the real thing by the Net's more gullible surfers.
  
  
• NewtWatch
  The grand daddy of Watch pages, and still the best.
  
  
• Dole Watch
  Watch Bob
  
  
• Gephardt Web Watch
  Watch Dick
  
  
• The Unofficial Dianne Feinstein
  Watch Dianne
  
  
• The World According to Helms
  Share in the wit and wisdom of North Carolina's Senior Senator.
  
  
• The Newt Gingrich WWW Fan Page
  Some pages "watch" in admiration
  
  
• Joint Economic Committee Hearing - 6/12/95
  This hearing was broadcast to, and took questions from, the Net.
  
  
• ROLL CALL - The Newspaper of Capitol Hill
  In its 40th year reporting on Capitol Hill, Roll Call established a cyber-edition.
  
  
• C-SPAN
  The television network that changed the way the public sees Congress, is likewise on the net.
  
  
• Highway 1
  A non-profit learning center funded by the technology industry with the goal of helping to facilitate the use and understanding of technology in government.

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