Worldview Analysis Assignment

The Congressional Budget Office provides financial estimates of proposed bills. It is recommend that you start with this site because it provides you with a summary of the bill and provides financial analysis that you will need for your “Financial Feasibility” study. You can use its search feature to find bills you would be interested in using for your policy brief. From the main page, scroll down to the “Find Analyses” section and click the “Cost Estimates” link:

Use the search tool in the upper left hand corner to put in your search topic. It can be a specific bill, or a general issue, like “abortion”.

Note that the search tool only works on a year-by-year basis, so if you do not know exactly what are looking for, you will need to use the drop down menu to select different years. The CBO site contains analyses as far back as 1998.

FINDING LEGISLATION

CONGRESS.GOV, provided by the Library of Congress: allows you to type in a key word (such as abortion) and it will list any bills that are dealing with that issue and where it is in the approval process.

OTHER RESOURCES Access the Government Databases page for

 Lexis-Nexis Legal Search (provides federal and state case law)  ProQuest Congressional  Many other policy related sites

Government Research Guide GovEngine: a privately run but free web site directory to the governments of all 50 states, including their legislatures. From there students can find state laws & statutes.