Federal
- FedWorld Information Network
Access point for locating and acquiring government information.
http://www.fedworld.gov
- GPO Access
The site, maintained by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is the premier
gateway for many important U.S. government sites such as U.S. Catalog of Government
Publications, U.S. Government Online Bookstore, Federal Regulations, Congressional
Record, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, Supreme Court Decisions, Presidential
Documents, U.S. Government Manual, etc. It also provides access to many government
information products.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
U.S. tax information.
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/
- NARA Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the
Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. It enables online access to
and viewing of about 42% of the National Archives nationwide holdings. Digitized materials include
photos, drawings, maps, charts and textual documents.
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/
- National Archives and Records Administration
Records of three branches of the U.S. federal government (executive, legislative
and judicial). Includes an online exhibit hall and links to related sites.
http://www.nara.gov
- University of Michigan Documents Center
The Documents Center is a central reference point for government information,
whether local, state, federal, foreign, or international. The site is logically
arranged with a search engine, a subject index and numerous links to related
sites.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html
- US Depository Ready Reference Sources
Conveniently arranged frequently used government documents maintained by the
Documents Service Center at Columbia University. It is divided into 16 subjects
emphasizing statistical and directory sources.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/rref/index.html
- White House
Information on the President, Vice President and their families, plus White
House documents, speeches, news articles, and federal services.
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Federal
- Congress Votes Database
Produced by the Washington Post Company, this site lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
The CBO, created in 1974, has as its mission to provide Congress with objective,
timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and
with the information and estimates required for the congressional budget
process. This is where congress gets its budgetary information.
http://www.cbo.gov/
- Congressional Directory
The Congressional Directory is the official directory of the U.S. Congress. It presents short biographies of
each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district, and additional data, such as committee memberships,
terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers. It also lists
officials of the courts, military establishments, and other Federal departments and agencies, including D.C.
government officials, governors of states and territories, foreign diplomats, and members of the press, radio,
and television galleries.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html
- GovTrack.us
GovTrack.us brings together information on the status of federal legislation, voting
records, and other congressional data from official sources. This site serves as
both a research tool and a customizable Congress-tracker providing email updates
and RSS/Atom feeds for all aspects of Congress.
http://www.govtrack.us/
- Library of Congress
Full text access to current pending bills in the U.S. House and Senate, research
tools, library services, exhibitions and documents, photos, movie and sound
recordings on America.
http://www.loc.gov
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Includes information on House and Senate bills with their text and status,
text of the Congressional Record, and committee information.
http://Thomas.loc.gov
- U.S. House of Representatives
House news, legislation, operations and directory. Member, committee and leadership
offices.
http://www.house.gov
- U.S. Senate
Information on senators, senate history, procedures, legislative activities
and committees.
http://www.senate.gov
Link to Tax Information for more sites.
Federal
- CRS Annotated Constitution
An online, searchable version of the US Constitution available from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. This version of the Constitution links to Supreme Court opinions, the United States Code, and the Code of Federal Regulations; it provides enhanced navigation of the text through linked footnotes and tables of contents.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/
- The Federal Judiciary Homepage
This site contains information about the Federal Judiciary including the Supreme
Court.
http://www.uscourts.gov
- FLITE (Federal Legal Information Through Electronics)
This is a historic file containing Supreme Court decisions from 1937-1975.
It can be searched by case or keyword.
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
- First Amendment Center
Affiliated with Vanderbilt University, this website provides information about current issues relating to the
First Amendment of the United States constitution in five basic areas: speech, press, religious liberty, assembly
and petition. The site also has a clearinghouse for historical documents relating to the First Amendment, including
a selection of Supreme Court docket sheets and court cases.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/default.aspx
- GPO Access
A valuable resource for anyone wanting access to easily searchable text of the Constitution.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html
- Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court Collection
This site offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes,
the court's electronic dissemination project. This archive contains nearly
all opinions of the court issued since 1990 and also over 600 of the most important
historical decisions. It includes a search engine.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Link to Statistics, Law, and Sociology for more sites.
- Governing.com
This site provides free information about current local and state government issues. Affiliated with
Governing magazine.
http://www.governing.com/
- State and Local Government on the Net
This site is arranged coherently to provide links to all 50 states, several
affiliated U.S. territorial units (e.g. Puerto Rico), many counties, and a
number of city governments. It also provides selective categories for multi-state
sites (e.g. the Great Lakes Region), federal resources, national organizations,
and other links. It is published by Piper Resources.
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
- State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin agencies, legislature, directory, public education, tourism, frequently
asked questions and links to local and federal sites.
http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/home
- State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) Publications
The Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) is a nonpartisan service agency of the
Wisconsin Legislature. The LRB's mission is to serve the Wisconsin Legislature
and the public by providing non-partisan legal, research, and library services.
Publications available from this site include: most recent BLUE BOOK, budget
summaries, Research Bulletins, Informational Bulletins, and Wisconsin Briefs
on current and recent state legislative topics.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/index.htm
- Stateline.org
A useful site for keeping up to date on public policy issues and trends at the state level of government. Also features
a commentary section and the “state of the state” speeches of state governors.
http://www.stateline.org/
- Wisconsin Department of Revenue: Forms and Instructions
http://www.dor.state.wi.us/
- Wisconsin Legislature
Information on activities of the state legislature, elected officials, and Wisconsin
Blue Book.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us
- Wispolitics
This site is an online political news service focusing on Wisconsin
and Wisconsin politics. Although it is a subscription service, it
contains much worthwhile free information.
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml
- The Wheeler Report
The Wheeler Report is a legislative newsletter in publication since
1972 reporting daily on the activities of the Wisconsin Legislature.
It includes summaries of legislation introduced, committee referrals
and actions, floor actions, final actions by the Governor, elections
and election results and links to related news stories.
http://www.thewheelerreport.com
- Who are My Legislators? Wisconsin
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/waml/
- City of Milwaukee
Local elected officials, common council, city departments, and government links,
including federal.
http://www.ci.mil.wi.us/
- Welcome to Milwaukee County
The official homepage for Milwaukee County containing information on the County
Executive, County Board, Courts, Departments & Services.
http://www.co.milwaukee.wi.us/
- Background Notes
Produced by the U.S. Department of State, Background Notes are factual publications
that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United
States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history,
government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries
and the United States.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
- About Canada
From the Government of Canada, this site is divided into four
main sections: Society, Government, Land, and Economy. It provides
links to the Web sites of federal, provincial, and territorial
governments and legislatures. It also gathers a number of
the most important specialized online sources for Canadian governmental
research and Canadian political science study.
http://canada.gc.ca/acanada/acPubHome.jsp?
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks
Education, health, political, social and economic information from foreign
countries.
http://Lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
- The Electric Embassy
Directory of information on all of the foreign embassies of Washington D.C.
with links to those that have web sites.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies/index.html
- Europa--The European Union On-line
The official Web site of the European Union--almost anything you want to know
about the European Union and its member states (including links to member state
Web pages) can be found here.
http://europa.eu
- Foreign Affairs Online
Well-maintained by a faculty member from Tufts University, this massive Web
site is an organized collection of several thousand links to important sites
for the study of international relations along with the study of domestic policies
of the US and other countries. It includes links to every part of the US government,
all UN agencies, the constitutions of all nations of the world,
maps and more.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html
- Governments on the WWW
Information on foreign governments such as parliaments, ministries, offices,
law courts, embassies, city councils from 200 countries.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/
- Nations of the World (Nations and Associated Jurisdictions)
Part of the Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online, this site offers a myriad of country information, but with emphasis
on links that offer the full texts of laws regulations, and court decisions along with expert commentary from practicing legal
professionals. Also, materials related to law and government that were written by or for lay persons have been included, as
have government sites providing general information.
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html
- Northwestern University Government Publications: International
Information
Probably the most complete list of links to the Web sites of international
organizations, it is arranged alphabetically by organization name.
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/
- United Nations
Information on U.N. activities, documents, and links to U.N. resources around
the world.
http://www.un.org/
- The World Fact Book
Handy general and up-to-date information on most countries of the world compiled
by the CIA.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Link to Countries & Regions, History,
and Sociology for more sites.
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