Politics
Government Information
- American Presidency ProjectA digital archive of the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States from Hoover to Bush (1929 to present); see also IC Library stacks at: J80 .A283. The site also includes: inaugural addresses, radio addresses, fireside chats, debates, convention speeches, and party platforms.
- Congress.govFind the status and history of bills in the current or prior legislature of Congress. Includes Committee Reports, Roll Call votes, Public Laws, U.S. Code, Congressional Record, etc.
- Congressional HearingsMost Congressional hearings are published two months to two years after they are held. Only hearings released to GPO from the committees are made available on GovInfo. Coverage from 1985 - present.
- CREST (CIA Declassified Documents)25 years worth of declassified documents now available to the public.
- Open CRS: Congressional Research Report for the PeopleCongressional Research Service (CRS) provides background reports to Congress yet they were not distributed to government document collections. Citizens had to write their Congressional representatives to obtain copies. The Open CRS site has indexed and posted copies of these valuable documents.
- Oyez: Supreme Court MultimediaUser friendly website that contains biographies of Supreme Court justices, case decisions, and some audio transcripts of select cases.
- USA.govThe U.S. government's official web portal. This site makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web
- US Code from the House of Representatives.Searchable version of the U.S. code either by keyword, boolean or by title and section.