United States Government Information Search

(code courtesy of MADGIC, Carleton University)

Government

• FirstGov - United States government website
  Includes links to Government Departments
• Search.USA.gov
  U.S. government's official web search
• Federal Digital System (FDsys)
  FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government Publications
• The United States Government Manual
  The official handbook of the programs and activities of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information about quasi-offcial agencies, international organizations with U.S. membership, and Federal boards, commissions, and committees.
• White House
• Embassy of the United States, Ottawa

Legislative Branch

• U.S. Congressional and Legislative Documents
  Guide to print and electronic resources - Debates, Journals, Statutes, etc.
• Thomas: U.S. Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
• Public and Private Laws
• U.S. Code (Federal Digital System (FDSys))
• U.S. Code
  Most recent official version of the U.S. Code from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
  Popular Names of Acts in the U.S. Code - search the code by names of the acts
• GovTrack.us
  Tracking the activities of the U.S. Congress. Included on this site are statues of U.S. federal legislation, voting records for the Senate and House of Representatives, information on Members of Congress, district maps, congressional committees and the Congressional Record.
• FindLaw
  Resources and links to both federal and state laws.
• Committee on Rules - House of Representatives
• Committee on Rules and Administration - Senate
• History of United States Statutes at Large and United States Code

Executive Branch

• Regulations
• Federal Register (National Archives)
  Provides access to the official text of Federal Laws, Presidential Documents, and Administrative Regulations and Notices. It also administers the Electoral College and the Constitutional amendment Process.
• Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Compilation of Presidential Documents
  Complied in Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Judiciary Branch

• The Federal Judiciary
• The Supreme Court
• Law Library of Congress - U.S. Judiciary
• Oyez
  The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent College of Law is a multimedia archive of the Supreme Court.

How laws are made

• Thomas
• GPOaccess

Treaties

• Library of Congress
  Search U.S. Treaties back to the 90th Congress, 1967-1968.
• United States Senate
• Canado-American Treaties
  Database of bilateral treaties established between the United States adn Canada from 1783 to 1997.

Statistics

• Data.gov
• American Factfinder
  Population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Demographic:
  U.S. Census Bureau
  Census of Population and Housing (U.S. Census Bureau)
  Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Economic:
  DRI Basic Economics (formerly CITIBASE)
  National Bureau of Economic Research
• Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Labour: Bureau of Labor Statistics
• FedStats
  Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• Government Statistics, Vanderbilt University
• Historical statistics

Issues and policies - Congressional Research Service

• U.S. Department of State
• Congressional Research Service Reports Archive
  hosted by University of North Texas Libraries
• Open CRS: Congressional Research Reports for the People
• Federation of American Scientists
  CRS reports on national security, foreign policy and related topics.

Copyright

• United States Copyright Office
• Copyright, Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
• Copyright and Fair Use, Stanford University

History

• The War of the Rebellion
  Compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies (the complete searchable 128 volume set)