Government Information

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The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.

Federal Government: General Information
Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
State Information
International and Foreign Information
Statistical Resources
Additional Resources

Federal Government:
General Information

American FactFinder (population, housing, economic and geographic data)
Biographical Directory of the Presidents
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (1774 to present)
Budget of the United States Government
Congressional Bibliographies (from North Carolina State University)
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)
Executive Branch Web Sites (Library of Congress)
FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research - provides economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe^Ž Acrobat^Ž PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.)
Government Databases by Subject (IUPUI site)
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Research Service)
Abstracts database searches summaries of periodicals, government publications and research reports. Full-text database searches only Department of Justice publications.
Science.gov ("Selected science information ... including research and development results")
U.S. Courts
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate Home Page
USA.gov (The U.S. government's official web portal)
White House Home Page

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Federal Government:
Legislative and Regulatory Information

GPO Access
A service of the US Government Printing Office that provides access to
information products produced by the Federal Government.
Thomas (search & retrieve the Congressional Record and the full text legislation from the 101^st to current congresses)
U.S. Congress (GPO Access)

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State Information

Kentucky State Government
1. Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer (University of Kentucky)
2. Kentucky Court of Justice
Includes Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Circuit, District, Family & Drug Courts
3. Kentucky Governor's Office
4. Kentucky Revised Statutes
5. Kentucky Stats (Kentucky Virtual Library)
6. Kentucky State Data Center
7. Kentucky State Legislature
8. Kentucky.gov (Commonwealth of Kentucky web site)

American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
Council of State Governments
FindLaw
State & County Quickfacts (facts about people, business, and geography)
State and Local Government on the Net
State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
State Data Centers
WWW Virtual Library-Law (Indiana University School of Law)
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- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Governments on the WWW
- International Agencies and Information on the Web (University of Michigan)
- U.S. Department of State Home Page
- United Nations
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Election Statistics (Clerk of the House - official vote counts for federal elections from1920 to the present)
- Exports
- Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
- InfoNation (United Nations)
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
- US Census Bureau
- U.S. Historical Census Data 1790-1960 (University of Virginia)
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- GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
- U.S. Government Online Bookstore via GPO (also see the commercial version from Claitor's)
- Subject Bibliographies (current government documents arranged by topic)
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