Finding 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, a searchable database of federal information.

Federal Resources

• Budget of the United States Government
• Congressional Budget Office
• Congressional Record
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Voting in New York State

Last update: Monday, February 11, 2008