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Organizations (25)

Politics (15)

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Political Magazines: The Almanac's links to political and public policy magazine sites.

Public Policy Jobs: Sites listing public policy, lobbying, and media jobs in government and at major national organizations.

Questia: Search over 400,000 books and journals at Questia online.

Directories

LookSmart - Social Issues and Public Policy

Open Directory Project - Issues

Yahoo - Directory

Yahoo - Issues and Causes

Government

FedStats U.S. Statistical Agencies on the Web: FedStats provides easy access to statistics and information produced by more than 100 U.S. Federal Government agencies

FedWorld Information Network: Fedworld provides government information and resources for consumers

FirstGov.gov: The U.S. Government's official web portal.

General Accounting Office: An office reporting to the US Congress, this agency studies the programs and expenditures of the federal government. Recently renamed as the Government Accountability Office.

Government Information Locator Service: The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) is an effort to identify, locate, and describe publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic information resources.

Government Printing Office: The U.S. Government Printing Office prints and disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Government Printing Office GPO Access: GPO Access provides free public access to full-text, official Federal information; Federal information finding aids; and Federal products for sale.

Government Printing Office Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications: The CGP, on GPO Access, indexes print and electronic Government information products created by Federal agencies. (1994 forward)

Thomas - U.S. Congress on the Internet: Information on bill before the US Congres from the Library of Congress.

U.S. Government Manual: The U.S. Government Manual, on GPO Access, provides comprehensive information on agencies of the three branches of Government. (1995 forward)

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

U.S. Statistical Abstract: An annual compendium of US federal government statistics.

White House: Whitehouse.gov is the official web site for the White House. This site is a source for information about the president, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.

Reference

Encyclopedia Encarta: From Microsoft.

Encyclopedia.com

Information Please Almanac: Find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.

Libraryspot.com: Find library and reference resources, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, and quotations.

Wikipedia: A free open source encyclopedia.

Yahoo - Reference Sites

Site Listings

Federal News Service - Congressional Transcripts Online: Federal News Service provides verbatim transcripts of the complete hearing testimony of Congress committees and subcommittees; public speeches and interviews of the President, White House; State Department, Defense Department and Justice Department briefings; press conferences and statements of international leaders visiting Washington; Presidential campaign debates and much more.

FedNet - Broadcast Coverage of Congress: FedNet offers broadcast coverage of the United States Government online. It offers daily broadcasts of both the Senate and House floor debates, Congressional hearings, The White House and other agencies around the Washington, DC, area.

Policy Library: Extensive database of think tank and academic papers on social, economic, and foreign policy from around the world. Also provides information about policy jobs, courses, research resources, and events.

U.S. Government Information and Resources - About.com: Comprehensive coverage of the U.S. government. Federal and state jobs, forms, the U.S. Congress and president of the United States. Read the Constitution and learn how America’s laws are made. Learn about the executive, legislative and judicial branches featuring coverage of the Supreme Court. Lots of homework help here.

U.S. Politics - About.com: The U.S. politics site is a clearing house for information on political issues and events, providing background on important issues such as tax legislation, foreign policy, abortion, electronic democracy, anti-terrorism legislation and prescription drug benefits.