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Executive
The White House
Economic
Report of the President
GPO
Access Budget of the U.S., Economic Report of the President,
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and others.
Independent Counsel Investigations Reports from GPO Access.
Executive Orders 1-2834 from 1862-1918 from History Universe.
(Under Access to Presidential Studies, click on Browse by Document
Type. Then click on Government Document and select the list you
want.).
Federal Administrative Decisions & Other Actions from the
University of Virginia Law Library.
Office of the
Pardon Attorney from the United States Department of Justice
lists pardons for the Bush (Sr.) and Clinton administrations.
Public
Papers of the Presidents of the United States from the National
Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register.
Presidential Directives and Where to Find Them from the Library
of Congress.
President Sponsored by the Leadership Information Archives (a
private/public consortium managed by the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill), this site's mission is to bring
"presidential libraries materials onto the Internet for improved
public access."
Presidential Libraries from the National Archives and Records
Administration.
President Freezes Terrorists' Assets Remarks by the
President, Secretary of the Treasury O'Neill and Secretary of State
Powell on Executive Order, The Rose Garden, September 24, 2001.
Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People
by President George W. Bush from the United States Capitol,
Washington, D.C. September 20, 2001.
Executive Orders Disposition Tables from January 9, 1939 to the
present, from the National Archives and Records Administration.
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Judicial
Academic
Universe/Legal Research Search full text federal, state, and
international legal materials.
FindLaw
Supreme Court cases from 1893 - , Federalist Papers, the
Constitution, lives of the Founding Fathers, past and present
Supreme Court Justices made available by Cornell University.
Court
Decisions State Courts, U.S. Supreme Court 1990 - , and U.S.
Circuit Courts from the Legal Information Institute.
Index to the
Colorado Courts Website, links to all the courts and to the
Supreme Court Library from the Colorado Courts Homepage.
U.S. Supreme
Court Decisions 1937-1975
Supreme Court of the
United States Access to the Court's Term slip opinions, 1999
Term orders, argument calendar, schedules, Rules, bar admission
forms and instructions, visitors' guides, case-handling guides,
special notices, press releases, and general information.
The Federal Judiciary Homepage
Official Federal Government web sites from the Library of Congress.
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Legislative
ANALYSIS
CQ Weekly, legislative news and analysis.
CQ Researcher, the most current and controversial issues of the
day with complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies
and more.
Congressional Research Service Reports Research reports on many
subjects requested by congressional committees.
Roll Call The
newspaper of Capitol Hill.
COMPREHENSIVE DATABASES--INDEXES AND SOME FULL
TEXT
GPO
Access Congressional Record; Congressional Committee Documents,
Reports, Hearings and Prints; History of Bills; Public Laws; GAO
Reports.
Congress Track Project Vote Smart, Status of Major Legislation
of the Current Congress.
Government Publications Library University of Colorado at Boulder
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SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Elected
Officials including the president, members of Congress,
governors, state legislators, and more.
Congressional Directory, the official directory of the U.S.
Congress prepared by the Joint Committee on Printing. Short
biographies of each member, by state or district, and more.
New Member Pictorial Directory 107th Congress prepared by the Committee on
House Administration, Bill Thomas, Chairman.
The United States
Senate
The United States
House of Representatives
Who's Who in
the Federal Government from the University of Memphis.
Government Redistricting Web Sites from the Purdue University
Libraries.
Congressional E-mail Directory
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HISTORICAL CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS
A Century of Lawmaking
for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates,
1774-1873 Now has full text of all of the predecessors to the
Congressional Record (House Journal, Senate Journal and Senate
Executive Journal, Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, & The
Congressional Globe) up to 1873 (1st through 42nd Congresses) as
well as full text of the Statutes at Large up to 1873 (1st through
42nd Congresses). The site also offers documents on the Continental
Congress and constitutional debates (1774-89) in the Journals of the
Continental
Congress, Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of the Federal
Constitution (Elliot's Debates), as well as selected documents from
the U.S. Serial Set.
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State & Local
State and Local
Government on the Net, a Piper Resources guide to government
sponsored Internet sites.
State Politics and
Policy Quarterly Data Resource from the University of Lincoln
Nebraska.
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International
Statistics
World Factbook from the CIA.
InfoNation from the United Nations.
Facts on
International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST), factbook/database
from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Includes
stats and facts on military expenditures; arms production and trade;
memberships, agreements, and events; conflicts and peace keeping
activities; and political system and country indicators.
International Data Base U.S. Census Bureau
IDB Population Pyramids from the U.S. census bureau, graphs that
show the distribution of population by age and sex in a particular
country.
Statistical
Resources Foreign and International Economics One of the best
sites, this University of Michigan site is focused on statistical
resources on the Web for foreign and international economics.
Statistics Canada/Statistique
Canada
International Labour Organization Bureau of Statistics Data,
statistical data extracts from LABORSTA-mainly annual time-series
that serve to publish the ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics.
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Foreign
Countries
Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies /
Area Handbook Series Search on their pages, or go to their list
of approximately 90 countries.
Links to Foreign Governments from Northwestern University
Library.
Foreign
Government Resources from University of Michigan.
UK Guide to Government from DirectGov
British Government Publications, the official stationary office
site, includes documents from 1994 to the present.
BOPCRIS, the
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information
Service, includes Parliamentary papers, Session papers, and reports
from the House of Commons from 1688 to 1995.
Canadian Government Information from the National Library of
Canada.
INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (IGOs) from
Northwestern University Library.
NGO GLOBAL NETWORK,
non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations.
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United
Nations
United Nations
System of Organizations, official WEB site locator.
ReliefWeb, includes job openings in relief organizations, a
library, and reports on disasters and gives details on what happened
and what's been done.
UNBISnet-UN
Bibliographic Information System from the United Nations Dag
Hammarskjöld Library, the primary index to United Nations
documentation published since 1979, or earlier for selected major
documents. Also includes the catalogue of the collections of the Dag
Hammarskjöld Library.
United
Nations Research Guide
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Subjects
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Annual report
submitted to the Congress by the Department of State regarding the
status of internationally recognized human rights practices.
International Religious Freedom Report describes the status of
religious freedom in each foreign country, and government policies
violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious
denominations and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote
religious freedom around the world.
World Human
Rights Information from the University of Minnesota.
State of the
World's Children 1998 from UNICEF.
Initiative on Conflict Resolution (INCORE), a joint initiative
between the University of Ulster and the United Nations University.
These country guides provide scholarly information on ethnic
conflicts in a few selected countries.
Euroguide to the European Union, a subject gateway to
authoritative Web sites that contain information about the European
Union.
EUR-OP Office
for Official Publications, European Union documents of every
type, in every pertinent language.
EU (European Union) Newsletters from the Delegation of the
European Commission to the United States.
Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: Executive
Summary from the U.S. Department of State.
International
Labour Organization
Kosovo from University of Michigan Documents Center, Documents
in the News, Foreign Governments.
Web Resources for International Trade maintained by the
Federation of International Trade Associations. Categories include
Currencies, International Taxation, International Law, Treaties and
International Conventions, and Trade Barriers.
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