Federal Government Information: Federal Government

The U.S. Government Publishing Office's digital portal, with U.S. bills, laws, Congressional reports, presidential papers, Supreme Court documents, regulatory information and more. See also the Govinfo.gov Guide and the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

Find government websites. Scroll down to browse by topic or branch of government.

Search by legislation or member of Congress. See also date coverage.

To find CRS reports, do a Google search for CRS and a policy issue, e.g. Google for: CRS immigration. These non-partisan reports are created by the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service for members of Congress.

A collaborative project between the Office of the Historian and the Clerk of the House's Office of Art and Archives.

Map finder for the U.S. Census Bureau's collection of Congressional District Maps

A guide from Duke. See also Congress.gov, the BGSU guide, Federal Legislative History 101 and the LLSDC's Legislative Source Book.

Includes the Compilation of Presidential Documents, Messages and Papers, Public Papers, Impeachment in the United States, the Code of Federal Regulations Title 3, and more.

By U.S. president, beginning with Herbert Hoover.

Official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary, published by the Federal Register, 1993-current. See also Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders (1945-1989) and the Executive Orders Disposition Tables, as well as the Federal Register (from NARA, GPO, 1994-current. See also HeinOnline.

An online archive from UC Santa Barbara with access to presidential documents and election materials.

From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington DC.

See also GPO (1995-current) and Fraser (1947-current).

A guide from the Library of Congress.

Includes links to all the entities existing in the EPO as well as recent EOP fiscal year budget submissions.

From the Museum of the Moving Image, with a large archive of presidential commercials back to 1952.

Explanatory information about the electoral college, a prediction tool, historical election results and more.

From the National Archives, with links to each presidential library listed under the "Visit" section of the guide.

The published bound version of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1754-2004. See also, Supreme Court Bound Volumes, 1991-current, HathiTrust and Information About Opinions.

Includes Supreme Court opinions back to 1790 and lower court decisions back to 1880.

The website of the U.S. Supreme Court. See also the Journal of the Supreme Court and the Oyez Project.

From the Library of Congress Law Library.

Supreme Court cases since 1791; federal district, appellate, tax, and bankruptcy courts since 1923; state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950. See also FindLaw.

Includes Supreme Court Decisions by Topic, a legal encyclopedia and browsable versions of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, C.F.R. and more.

A robust database on Supreme Court cases, 1946 to 2011. You can download datasets or do online analysis.

Includes statistics, reports, and information about federal courts and judges. See also the Federal Judicial Center.

A list of 28 book titles from the catalog

Datasets generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

Population, demographic, and housing data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Includes Gross Domestic Product (GDP), consumer spending and national, international, regional, and industry data from the U.S. Commerce Department.

BJS is the United States government's primary source for criminal justice statistics that cover a wide range of topics.

Inflation, price, employment, unemployment, pay, benefits, spending, time use, productivity, and workplace injuries data.

Data on issues related to children and families compiled by multiple federal agencies.

From the Library of Congress

Enter a location to find air, water, land, energy and climate information.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

The principal agency that produces general-purpose health data. NCHS is responsible for the collection, maintenance, analysis, and dissemination of statistics on the nature and extent of the health, illness, and disability of the U.S. population; the impact of illness and disability on the economy; the effects of environmental, social, and other health hazards and health care costs and financing.

A guide to agencies that create and disseminate federal statistics.

Provides the website, email address, phone number, and mailing address for each government agency.

A searchable list of federal agencies maintained by the Federal Register.

Contact information for federal, state, and local government officials.

Includes an extensive list of apps by government agency.

This guide matches U.S. federal agencies with their SuDoc (Superintendent of Documents) number. With this number, you can browse print government publications on the 4th floor of Helmke Library. You can also find SuDoc numbers in the library catalog and Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

Identifies federally appointed positions within the U.S. Government; published every four years. See also: https://m.gpo.gov/plumbook/.

The official handbook of the U.S. government, with contact information for federal officials, quasi-official agencies, commissions and committees. See also GPO.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) holds the historical records of the U.S. federal government. The catalog searches both digitized items and physical items held by NARA.

This National Archives (NARA) site allows you to search and browse by person, place, time, and subject.

Access a wide range of digital collections from one of the world's largest libraries. See also American Memory.

Search or browse the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, Journals of Congress, Debates of Congress, and Statutes and Documents.

An archive of selected U.S. Government websites. See also the End of Term Web Archive, the Internet Archive and CyberCemetery.

The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity

Includes a database of locations officially designated as historic by the National Park Service.

Dedicated to preserving our nation's heritage, the site offers a Collections Search Center and the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA).

This website is an online supplement to the Indiana Libraries article, Guide to Historical Research with Government Publications, 1789-1989. The website identifies important indexes used for finding legislative, executive and judicial publications.

Browse or search previously classified materials from the CIA.

The FBI's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Library; search or browse by category or an A to Z index.

Declassified documents from the U.S. State Department. You may also browse collections.