Government

Guides and General Resources

• Voice of the Shuttle Politics and Government Page — This collection of political science resources is part of the Voice of the Shuttle, the Humanities web site maintained by Allen Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
• Federal Internet Guide — The Washington Post’s guide to the World Wide Web sites of the United States Government
• Project Vote Smart — A project dedicated to providing objective, comprehensive information about elections, candidates and issues.

State Government

• Mass.gov — The official web site of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with links to the web sites of all state agencies and departments.

United States Government Resources

• FirstGov: Your First Click to the United States Government — A good place to start for searching for any government information
• The United States Constitution

Executive Department

• The White House — The White House Web Server has information about the President and Vice President, the Cabinet Departments, and various other aspects of the Executive branch of government.

Legislative Department

• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet — “In the Spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a service of the U.S. Congress through its Library.” Search for the full text and status of pending legislation, read about the legislative process, and more.
• The United States Senate — Information on members of the Senate, Senate Committees, etc.
• The United State House of Representatives — Information on members of the House, House Committees, etc.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress — A searchable collection of brief biographies of members of Congress, 1774-Present

The Supreme Court

• Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research, LLRX.com — Provides a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research, compiled by Gail Putin, an associate law librarian at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law.
• Legal Information Institute — Cornell’s Legal Information Institute provides access to Supreme Court decisions from 1990 on, indexed by topic, keyword, term and party name, with selected pre-1990 decisions by topic, as well as other information on the Supreme Court and its Justices.
• The Oyez Project : US Supreme Court Multimedia Database — This site has many recordings of oral arguments before the Supreme Court available as RealAudio files.

Other United States Government Resources

• Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services — Offers an extensive collection of laws, policy and procedural documents and forms on all aspects of immigration.
• Catalog of United States Government Publications — The Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT) contains most of the information available through the Federal Depository Library Program and is available for online searching as part of the GPO Access Federal Locator services.
• GPO Access — The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
• GPO Access: Keeping America Informed Electronically — This site provides access to many different searchable databases of government information, including the U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and much more.
• FedStats — FedStats provides access to statistics of various kinds produced by many different government agencies.
• FedWorld — FedWorld provides organized subject access to information from many different government agencies.
• Grants.gov — Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies, over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.