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Internet Reference Library

Government (U.S.)

 

General

50 States.com
http://www.50states.com/
Facts about the states, including state songs, flowers and birds, maps, political representatives, links, and more. (LII)

Selective Service Registration
http://www.sss.gov/regist.htm
Answers questions about who must register, and how to register. Also find information about conscientious objection, the relationship between registration and federal government services and benefits, women and the draft, and a bibliography. (LII)

U.S. Senate
http://www.senate.gov

U.S. House of Representatives

http://www.house.gov
Information about the current U.S. House of Representatives and its members. Provides access to each member's Web site and to committee Web sites as well as links to leadership offices and House organizations, House schedules, voting records, and more. Also includes links to related sites. Searchable. (LII)

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov

U.S. Dept. of Commerce
http://home.doc.gov

U.S. Dept. of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil
Official U.S. Department of Defense site for all branches of service, including active, reserve, veteran, and retired members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard. Links to all things military: news, press releases, backgrounders, branches of service, statistics, aid to military families, emergency relief, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, history of key conflicts, key military biographies, and more. (LII)

U.S. Dept. of Education
http://www.ed.gov

U.S. Dept. of Energy
http://www.doe.gov

U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
http://www.os.dhhs.gov

U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development

http://www.hud.gov

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
http://www.doi.gov

U.S. Dept. of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov

U.S. Dept. of Labor
http://www.dol.gov

U.S. State Department

http://www.state.gov

U.S. Dept. of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov

U.S. Dept. of Treasury
http://www.ustreas.gov

U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs

http://www.va.gov

White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov

 

Directories

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

Federal Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/federal.html

Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/

FirstGov (directory of U.S. Government web sites)
http://www.firstgov.gov

Google U.S. Government Search
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web -- from the same search box (Google).

Meta-Subject Index to Government Information
http://www.isu.edu/library/docs/Subjects1.htm

USASearch.gov
http://www.usasearch.gov/

A powerful search tool that clusters government search results by topics, agencies and sources. Searches can be limited to state government on the advanced search screen.

U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html