Government Info

The Virginia Public Access Project (non-profit tracking money in politics)

--homepage,  http://www.vpap.org/ 

--Top lobbying spenders for May ’12 to April ’13 http://www.vpap.org/lobbyists/top

Richmond Sunlight  (non-partisan information site about the General Assembly)

--homepage, http://www.richmondsunlight.com

How to find your legislator

--Official Va site http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/VGAMain?openform 

--Richmond Sunlight  http://www.richmondsunlight.com/your-legislators/

Virginia Legislative Information System LIS (official Virginia General Assembly info site) http://lis.virginia.gov/

State Board of Elections (bipartisan agency ensuring fair elections)

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/PublicSite/PublicMain.aspx

Virginia Law Portal 

http://law.lis.virginia.gov/

About Dillon's Rule
Brookings discussion of Dillon's Rule

Virginia Coalition for Open Government (nonprofit re access to govt records)

--freedom of information act info http://www.opengovva.org/foia/current-law

--FOI citizen’s guide http://www.opengovva.org/virginias-foia-resources

Congress

--Congress.gov (federal legislative resources)

--find your representative by entering your zip code in the banner box, next to the USA map.  http://www.house.gov/representatives/

--find your United States Senators by choosing Virginia in the drop-down box in the upper-right-hand corner of the banner. 

 http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

--active legislation

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm

Library of Congress Thomas

--State Legislature websites http://thomas.loc.gov/home/state-legislatures.html

GovTrack  (promotes Congressional transparency & civic engagement and tracks bills)  https://www.govtrack.us/  
--Virginia Congress information
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/VA

OpenSecrets (non-partisan non-profit, tracks money in politics)
--resources page http://www.opensecrets.org/resources/

EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency)

--Biosolids:  Targeted National Sewage Sludge Survey Report Overview January 2009

EPA 822-R-08-014 http://water.epa.gov/scitech/wastetech/biosolids/tnsss-overview.cfm

Vote Reports
 votereports.org, Environmental issues
Rankings of VA Congressmen
 (How pathetic that my rep Cantor gets an F!)