| United States Federal Government Metasites |
| GPO Access |
Congressional Record from the 103rd Congress forward.
GPO Access provides additional or different information than Thomas--e.g. regulations, executive branch materials, and executive and judicial branch databases.
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FDsys: Federal Digital System
| now in beta, this is the new content management system for GPO Access |
| First.gov |
An older U.S. government supersite clearinghouse for more than 20,000 government sites with more than 35 million web pages |
| THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet |
THOMAS files generally begin with the 104th Congress with the following exceptions--full text of bills from the 103rd Congress forward |
| At this time (Jan 2010) in depth research relying on federal government information should use all 4 of the sites above for best coverage. |
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students.gov |
Major areas include, planning and paying for education, career development, military service, Government 101 , and community service |
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| American Attitudes: Program on International Policy Attitudes |
focuses on the study of American opinions and perceptions of international issues; shared project of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International Security Studies (CISSM) at the Univ of Maryland.For each public survey the user can view the actual questionnaire, including sample size, dates, margin of error, and list of questions. |
| American FactFinder |
Quick reference source for facts, figures and analysis of key overall demographic trends; US Census Bureau |
| American Civil Liberties Union
| non-profit organization with a particular agenda; provides a searchable database; also tabbed entries include Supreme Court and Legislative Update |
| American Political Development: Primary Sources |
U. of Virginia: The Miller Center of Public Affairs |
American Presidency Project  |
Originally UC-Santa Barbara, now a stand-alone site containing 86,419 documents related to the study of the Presidency |
| The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden |
Smithsonian; aimed primarily at K-12 teachers and students ; the site is highly interactive and very well-designed |
| AmericanPresident.org: An Online Reference Resource |
Miller Center of Public Affairs; includes biographies of presidents; cabinet lists, staff and advisor lists, key events and pictures of persons and events. |
| ANES: American National Election
Studies |
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| Annenberg Public Policy Center
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| Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism & the Attacks of September 11, 2001 |
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| Archives.gov |
a convenient, updated on a near-daily basis; resources continue to expand, with hundreds of thousands of archival images of historical documents, figures and events |
| Assessing the New Federalism Database |
The Web site is suppored by the Urban Institute, coverage is available for all 50 states and Washington D.C. The site includes published research and downloadable data on income security, health, child well- being, demographics, fiscal and political conditions, and social services. A toolkit section includes a helpful Policy Jargon Decorder
and a section on Data Methods. |
| Black Members of the United States Congress, 1870-2005 |
a pdf file |
| Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-present |
provided by the US Congress as part of the mandated transition to government information in electronic format, a very stripped-down site with no browsing options |
| Capitol Spotlight |
Free site sponspored by C-Span andCongressional Quarterly; offers weekly updates when Congress is in session; does not replace Thomas and other .gov sites, but serves as a useful supplement. |
| Center For Immigration Studies |
The Center for ImmigrationStudies (CIS) Web site is the product of a nonprofit, nonpartisan (although politically conservative) think tank founded in 1985 to study the economic, social, demographic, and fiscal impacts of population movements on the US. |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
an organization that has emerged as a national authority on policy issues impacting primarily ower-income individuals and families. |
| Center On Religion and Democracy |
The Center on Religion and Democracy, a nonpartisan research center at the Univ. of Virginia, is committed to addressing the question of whether
American democracy can be "properly woven with the threads of new cultures, languages, backgrounds, interests and ideas." |
| Commission on Presidential Debates |
a non-profit organization which has sponsored all presidential debates since 1987. The site includes debate transcripts from 1960, and from 1976-2008. |
| Congress.org |
a simple, useful membership directory for both houses of Congress |
| CongressLink |
directed at K-12 teachers of government and civics; provides tested lesson plans, student reserach activities and excellent basic information on the US government and how it works |
| Congressional Budget Office
| most publications are available as pdfs or html files; an RSS feed is available; the site also provides a Glossary of Budgetary and Economic Terms |
| The Constitution of the United States of America: Annotated |
a gpoaccess site; it provides both a table of contents that allows browsing, and a keyword searchable form of the Constitution also see site below |
| CRS Annotated Constitution |
Cornell University Law School |
| Counterterrorism Office |
see also: Country Reports on Terrorism both U.S. Department of State |
| DHS: US Department of Homeland Security |
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| FactCheck.org |
Supported by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. If you ever wonder whether a political ad, speech or press release is serving fact or fiction, you should take a look at this site. The site provides both the original ad, speech or press release as well as facts checked by highly trained researchers. |
| Fair Vote: The Center for Voting and Democracy |
a non-profit organization with an agenda that began in 1992 as advocating a change to proprotional representation; after the 2000 elections the organization broadened and refined its agenda. The web site now states that the orgianzation supports a constitutionally protected right to vote, direct election of the president, instant runoff voting for executive elections and proportional voting for legislative elections. As a reform catalyst, we develop and promote practical strategies to improve elections for local, state and national leaders. An interesting take on a particular set of issues. |
| Federal Judicial Center
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| FedStats |
developed by the Clinton administration's Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, this is a subject guide with quick links to Web sites of more than 70 statistics-producing agencies of the US government. |
| FindLaw |
an extremely powerful Internet guide to US case law, law codes, law review articles, legal news, lawyers, law schools, law consultants, legal organizations, and substantial information on more than 30 major areas of the law |
| First Amendment Center
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nonprofit organization |
| Free Speech Movement Archives |
Berkeley |
| Freedom Forum |
a nonprofit, nonpartisan international foundation;First Amendement; free speech; freedom of religion emphasized |
| Gallup.com
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| Governing.com: The Resource for States and Localities |
well-designed Internet portal for finding current information on state and local governments. |
| Government Performance Project |
funded by the Pew Charitable Trust; provides comprehensive, independent information about state management performance. |
| The History of Televised Debates |
contains links to excerpts of film footage, still photos, newespaper and magazine reactions for each televised presidential debate from 1960 to 2000 |
| Institute for Policy Research
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Northwestern University |
| KM.gov |
KM stands for Knowledge Management; a site supported by the Federal Chief Information Officer's Coucnil; covers the activities of the U.S. Governments KM Working Group. Includes information on its various Special Interest Groups (SIGs), e.g. Content Management, KM Education, and Public Policy. |
| LII: Supreme Court Collection |
part of Cornell Law Schools excellent site |
| Landmark Supreme Court Cases |
The site is a joint effort by Street Law and The US Supreme Court Historical Society. |
| MAPLight.org: Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection
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non-profit which aims to illuminate the connections between campaign donations and legislative votes |
| Metavid: The Open Video Archive of the US Congress
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archive of televised proceedings |
| National Conference of State Legislatures |
A bipartisan organization that provides information to the legislators of the 50 states and lobbies Congress on behalf of the states. |
| National Priorities Project |
a non-profit which focuses on the impact of federal budgetary policies and decisions on states and communities |
| National Security Archive |
an interesting and useful Web site; NSA is an indepenent, nongovernmental, non-profit research institute |
| Odum Institute for Research in Social Science Data Archive |
University of North Carolina |
| Open Secrets.org
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Center for Responsive Politics; formerly Capital Eye: Money in Politics Newsletter, is now the name of the blog associated with the site; since 2002 has been a respected resource for campaign finance information |
| Oyez Oyez Oyez |
a multimedia archive; the aim is to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955 |
| Penn Center for Bioethics |
the Center's mission is to "promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in the life sciences and medicine." |
| Politicalinformation.com:
A Search Engine for Politics, Policy, & Political News |
strives to be a targeted free service guiding users to more than 4,000 carefully chosen political and public policy Web sites |
| PollingReport.com
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This Internet vehicle for the magazine The Polling Report give undergraduates, teachers, and researchers alike easy access to a timely, high
quality cross-section of poll data on topics of national political, economic, and sociocultural interest. |
| POTUS: Presidents of the United States |
basic but very reliable information aimed at general users or K-12 information seekers |
| Presidential Libraries |
Offers a brief history of the library system and its operation; in addition to research information, the libraries also are continuously adding photo collections, videos, audio speeches, and scanned documents; comprehensive an up-to-date. |
| Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
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| Project Vote Smart |
a non-profit, scrupulously non-partisan organization with the mission of providing citizens with information about the political system, issues, elected officials, and candidates from the state legislative level up to the presidency |
| Public Agenda Online.org |
Founded in 1975 by social scientist Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, the organization aims to "help leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues," and to "help citizens better understand critical policy issues"; nonpartisan. |
| State and County Quick Facts |
U.S. Census Bureau |
| State and Local Government on the Net |
nicely packaged site; arranged coherently to provide links to all 50 states, many counties, and a number of city governments. |
| Stateline.org
| Students of public policy need a source of current and continuously updated information about what is going on at the state level; this tremenduously useful site accomplishes that task. |
| Tracked in America.org
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this site in association with various civil rights organizations, explores US government "tracking" of its citizens from about 1900 forward. Readily accessible, easy to navigate, also has enhancements such as lesson plans geared to grades 9-12. |
| Subject Indexes to Government Information on the Internet |
sparse interface, but frequently updated |
| United States Senate |
US House of Representatives |
| U.S. Conference of
Mayors |
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| Web Guide to US Supreme Court Research |
The site's objective is to "facilitate the convenience and speed" of Internet research. It provides 13 pages of annotated lists to the best web sites concerned with the Court. |
| WhiteHousetapes.org |
The Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia is making available some 5,000 hours of audio tapes of US Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt (8 hours) to Richard Nixon (3,700 hours). |
