American Politics
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Government Information
Congressional Research Service Reports - from the National Agricultural Law Center
Collection of reports related to agricultural and food issues such as avian flu, international trade, biotechnology, food labeling, and many others.
Federal Government Resources on the Web
Documents Center (University of Michigan)
FirstGov.gov
The U.S. government's official portal for scholars, researchers, businesses
and non-profits, students, government employees, and the general public.
GPO Access
From U. S. Government Printing Office, can search over 75 databases
Inside Politics -CNN/Time
Contains up-to-date analyses from of politics, news, issues, polls, elections.
Includes links to Time and a news archive.
National Issues.com
Compilation of domestic and international news stories from a variety of U.S.
and international sources.
Open CRS (Congressional Research Reports
for the People)
Congressional Research Service is a "think tank" that provides reports
to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political
events. This Open CRS project of the Center for Democracy & Technology
tries to provides citizens access to those CRS Reports already in the public
domain. This site does not include all CRS reports.
Politics1
Non-partisan site with links to elections, the candidates, issues.
State Web Pages
List of official state web pages, that include business development and tourist
information in addition to political information.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Web
Track status of legislation, congressional reports, historical documents,
and more.
U. S. Congress Votes Database
Database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). Can view the results by the Congress or the individual. Site also publishes an RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress, and a feed of
the most recent votes in both chambers. Updated daily using information on the Senate and House web sites and Thomas.
United States Politics
- Documents Center (University of Michigan)
Comprehensive site for federal and state government operations.