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Congressional Candidates and Committees. Washington, D.C.: Federal Election Commission, 2008. SUDOC: Y 3.EL 2/3:13 C 76/2008

This guide summarizes the federal campaign finance laws that apply to candidate committees as of April 2008. The guide is intended to assist House and Senate candidates comply with the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations. Interested parties can find information on federal campaign finance laws. Topics include: Testing the Waters; Starting the Campaign; Campaign Contributions (types and limits); Sources of Support; Expenditures; Campaign Conduct; Record Keeping; Campaign Communications; and other relevant issues.

This document is available online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS36736

Future versions of this document are located at: http://www.fec.gov/info/publications.shtml#guides

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

The Sunlight Foundation has created a widget where users can keep up with the latest tweets from members of Congress who use Twitter. The Sunlight Foundation’s Capitol Tweets widget updates you every 10 minutes with the latest tweets from members of Congress.

Users can download the widget from the following website:
http://sunlightfoundation.com/capitoltweets/

For a list of the Members of Congress who Twitter go to the following website:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Members_of_Congress_who_Twitter

Snider, L. Britt. The Agency and the Hill: CIA’s Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004. Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2008.

This is a study of the CIA’S relationship with Congress, from the creation of the Agency until 2004. In Part I of the book, the author portrays how Congress and the Agency related before and after the creation of the committees on select intelligence, and discusses how the Agency shared intelligence and Congress managed oversight. Part II describes what the relationship produced over time: legislation affecting the Agency; programs and budget; oversight of analysis; oversight of collection; oversight of covert action; oversight of security and personnel matters; and the Senate confirmation process. It highlights what the principal issues have been for Congress in each area as well as how those issues have been handled.

Available on the Internet: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS101665

**Taken from Preface.**

On Tuesday, November 4, registered voters around the country will go to the polls to vote in their local, state, and federal elections. Here in Mississippi, voters will have the unique opportunity to vote for two United States Senators in the same year. More importantly, voters all over the country will have the opportunity to choose who will be the next President of the United States. Of course, this is only possible if you have first registered to vote.

The Government Documents, Microforms, and Current Journals Department has created a display where patrons can find answers to the following questions:

* How can I register to vote?
* Can I register here in Mississippi?
* How can I submit an absentee ballot if I am registered somewhere else?
* What form of ID do I need to bring with me to vote in November?

Voters can find the answers to these questions, and much more, by checking out the display in the Government Documents, Microforms, and Current Journals Department. Also available are voter registration forms for the State of Mississippi.

You can check out the following websites to learn more, or stop by the Government Documents, Microforms, and Current Journals Department and check out the display!

Registering to Vote Out-of-State
http://www.eac.gov/voter/Register to Vote

Registering to Vote in Mississippi
http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/VoterRegistration/UpdatedVoterReg.pdf

Election 2008 Research Guide
http://library.msstate.edu/research/researchguides/Election2008.asp

A Voter’s Guide to Election Day
http://www.eac.gov/voter/docs/votersguideelectionday.pdf/attachment_download/file

Mississippi Secretary of State
http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/elections.asp

Election Assistance Commission
http://www.eac.gov/index_html1

National Association of Secretaries of State
http://www.canivote.org

**The posting does not intend to reflect any one political view, nor is it an endorsement for any candidate. This posting is purely informational in nature.**

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond has unveiled its online project "Voting America United States Politics, 1840-2004."

http://www.americanpast.org/voting

Voting America provides cinematic & interactive maps, and analysis, of the Presidential elections in the US from 1840-2004. This unique resource focuses on election data to the county level (rather than state), helping users understand the nuances of our electoral history. It allows for users to compare elections as well as recognize the significance of individual elections by geographic region, political party, voter turnout, voter demographics, and more in a stimulating, visual environment.

**Text from Laura Horne's message on GovDoc-L**

Post on GovDoc-L from: Laura M Horne, Social Sciences Librarian, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond