Government Resources

The following Web sites might be of particular use for TC3 students as they pursue their academic needs and personal projects. A very good starting point for federal information is FirstGov, the searchable archive of federal information.

Federal Resources

• Budget of the United States Government

 

• Congressional Budget Office

 

• Congressional Record

 

• Constitution of the United States - See also the Legal Information Institute's United States Constitution and U.S. Constitution Annotated

 

• Economic Report of the President

 

• FirstGov - Search engine for government information

 

• Federal Election Commission - Provides detailed campaign finance data for congressional elections. (Other sources of campaign finance data are Political Money Line, American University Campaign Finance Website and Center for Responsive Politics / OpenSecrets.)

 

• FedWorld

 

• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information - Directory organized by level of government and by subject

 

• Government Publications Access - Browse by SuDocs Number

 

• GPO Access - Government documents in electronic format. Provides list of searchable publication databases

 

• Internal Revenue Service

 

• Library of Congress

 

• Open CRS Network - Congressional Research Service reports

 

• Supreme Court and Supreme Court Decisions

 

• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet - Library of Congress. Their Bill Summary & Status provides daily updates on the status of legislation. This database integrates this information with selected full-text files from GPO and with other data, such as roll call votes, from the House and Senate web sites.

 

• U.S. Code - See also GPO Access' Code of Federal Regulations

 

• Office of the Clerk - U.S. House of Representatives - Records of all roll-call votes taken since 1990

 

• U.S. Courts - Federal Judiciary Official Web Site

 

• U.S. Executive Branch Official Web Sites

 

• United States Government Accountability Office - The Reports and Testimony are updated daily. You can browse by date, topic and agency.

 

• U.S. Government Manual

 

• U.S. House of Representatives - See also their Committee on Rules which offers Congressional Research Service reports about the legislative process

 

• U.S. Senate

 

• USASpending.gov "The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award."

 

• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

   

   

   

  New York State Resources

   

• Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York

 

• New York State Assembly

 

• New York State Archives

   

• New York State Department of Civil Service

 

• New York State Department of Taxation and Finance

 

• New York State Government Information and Locator Service

 

• Legislative Gazette

 

• New York State Government Phone Directory

 

• New York State Legislature

 

• New York State Senate

 

• New York State Statistics

 

• New York State Unified Court System - Has Court Administration Reports

 

• New York State Webpage

 

• Office of the Governor

 

• Project Sunlight - Site's mission is to "promote transparency in government by making more accessible information about individual elected officials, campaign finance activities, legislation, lobbyists, state contracts, and registered corporations and charities."

 

• Voting in New York State

 

Last update: Tuesday, July 01, 2008