Government Resources: Federal and New York State

Good starting points for federal information are FirstGov, a searchable archive of federal information and GPO MetaLib "a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online."

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 and the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.)
FedWorld - U.S. Department of Commerce.
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 Congressional Committee Materials Online via GPO Access
Internal Revenue Service
Library of Congress
GPO MetaLib - "Federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online."
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
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 - "Published every Monday and is the official publication of presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary."

New York State Government Resources

Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
New York State Assembly
New York State Archives
New York State Board of Elections
New York State Department of Civil Service
Employment Opportunities with New York State Government
New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
New York State Government Information and Locator Service
Legislative Gazette
New York State Legislature
New York State Senate
New York State Unified Court System
eCourts
Publications
New York State Webpage
Office of the Governor
Project Sunlight - Project'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."
Public Phone Directory - NYS Government Listings

Last update: Friday, November 05, 2010