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GOVERNMENT SOURCES
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Search Guides
GPO Access - Provides access to a plethora of information produced by the federal government. Full-text documents include: Supreme Court Decisions, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, the Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Bills, the Congressional Directory, the Congressional Record, Public Laws, Congressional Hearings and Reports, the U.S. Constitution, and more.
Superintendent of Documents Home Page - A link to the Government Access Page plus information about buying government publications or finding them on-line or at a depository library.
Catalog of United States Government Publications - A catalog of government documents published from January 1994 to the present available from depository libraries.
FedWorld Information Network - Allows you to select a government agency and search its GILS (Government Information Locator Service) which identifies and describes its public information resources and provides assistance for obtaining the information.
GovEngine.com - Comprehensive directory of Official Federal, State, and Local Government and Court links.
Executive Branch
White House - Official Web Site of the Executive Branch - News, issues, appointments, offices, presidential biography, history, and contact information.
- Council of Economic Advisors
- Domestic Policy Council
- National Economic Council
- National Security Council
- Office of Management and Budget
- President's Foreign Intelligence Board
- Office of the First Lady
- Office of the Vice President
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Country Reports on Human Rights (U.S. Department of State) - Reports on the human rights conditions of various countries.
Department of Veterans Affairs
Legislative Branch
How Our Laws Are Made - Explains how a bill becomes a law.
Records of Congress - A guide to Congressional records held by the National Archives.
THOMAS Legislative Information on Internet - Congressional Record, bills and more.
Legislative Branch Internet Links - Links to voting records, biographical information on legislators, election statistics, rules for the House and Senate, history, legislative agencies, Congressional District Maps, partisan Web sites, and more.
House of Representatives - Homepage for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Senate - Homepage for the U.S. Senate.
Plum Book - Contains data on several thousand civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches that are subject to noncompetitive appointments (patronage jobs).
Green Book - Provides descriptions and historical data on social programs and economic issues such as welfare, Social Security, health insurance, child support, the elderly, families with children, poverty, employment, and taxation. Produced by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Blue Book - Contains a general overview for current provisions for U.S. trade law as well as the actual text of these laws.
Judicial Branch: Laws and Regulations
United States Supreme Court - Official homepage.
Supreme Court Decisions - Full-text Supreme Court decisions issued between 1937-1975.
Legal Information Institute - The most recent Supreme Court decisions as well as historic Supreme Court decisions.
Supreme Court Opinions - Full-text judicial opinions from 1999 to the present.
Oyez Project - This database contains historical and current information on the U.S. Supreme Court. It includes printed documents, cases sorted by subject, audio recordings of opinions and arguments from landmark cases, profiles of the justices, and a tour of the Supreme Court building.
Lexis-Nexis Academic - Information for basic legal research including legal news, case law, secondary literature, codes and regulations, international legal materials, patent research, and legal careers.
The Federal Register - The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
Code of Federal Regulations - The codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Code of Federal Regulations from Cornell University.
United States Code - The United States Code is the codification, by subject matter, of the general and permanent laws of the United States. 1994-2000.
United States Code From Cornell University - The most up to date U.S. Code available.
FindLaw - Many legal resources, including cases, court decisions and Federal resources
Federal Agencies
Consumer Information Center - Contains hundreds of government consumer publications on issues such as food, money, computers, cars, education, travel, etc.
U. S. Federal Government Agencies Directory
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Archives and Records Administration
National Transportation Safety Board
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Trade & Development Agency
Government Statistics
Fedstats - One-stop shopping for Federal Statistics.
Agriculture Statistics - Includes publications, charts and maps, historical data, and census of agriculture.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Statistics on labor such as inflation and consumer spending, wages, earnings and benefits, occupations, demographics, and more.
Bureau of Economic Analysis Statistics - Statistics on Gross Domestic Product, corporate profits, personal income, gross state product, trade in goods and services, and more.
The Economic Statistics Briefing Room - Includes statistics on money, employment, income, output, prices, production, transportation.
The Social Statistics Briefing Room - Includes statistics on crime, demography, health, and education.
Census Bureau - U.S. government resource for social, demographic, and economic statistics.
Historical Census Data - From 1790 to the present.
International Data Bank (IDB) - Produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, this database allows users to create customized tables for basic demographic and economic information for countries around the world. Covers 1950 to the present.
Bureau of Justice Statistics - Statistics on the U.S. justice system. Information available includes drugs and crime, criminal offenders, law enforcement, courts and sentencing, prosecution, corrections, crime and victims, etc.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports - Provides statistics on crime by city, county and state with various categories of criminal activity. Includes detailed maps and charts.
International Resources
United Nations - Official homepage of the United Nations. Access to U.N. news, issues, conferences, member states, publications, maps, documents, and more.
Political Resources on the Net - A listing of political sites from around the world. Links are organized by country and political party.
The European Union in the US - News, reports, publications, and issues regarding E. U. and United States relations. Subjects range from trade and economics to law and human rights.
International Organizations - A directory of international organizations from UC Berkeley.
International Documents - A directory of international internet documents from Northwestern University. Links to the web sites of international governments are provided.
By Aaron F. Nichols - Public Services Librarian
Created:10/18/04
Last Update: 10/06/06