Government Information: U.S. Government Information

U.S. Census data, map, and surveys.

Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience from the Library of Congress.

Official government site which provides access datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Provides access to official historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the Department of State's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and has more than 450 volumes of documents from Presidential libraries, Departments of State and Defense, National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency, Agency for International Development, and other foreign affairs agencies as well as the private papers of individuals involved in formulating U.S. foreign policy

A central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information. It includes the NTIS National Technical Reports Library which acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives U.S. government-sponsored technical reports

Search registered patents and trademarks

Searches over 36 databases and 1,850 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Provides access to national, state, and agency crime data complied by the FBI.

The U.S. government's official web portal which provides access to U.S. local, state, and federal government agency websites.

Main portal to the Executive Branch of the White House and the President of the United States

A collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.

Includes such material as: proclamations, executive orders, speeches, press conferences, acts approved by the President, nominations submitted to the Senate, White House announcements, and press releases.

An annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices.

The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

The official publication of the United States Presidents' public writings, addresses, and remarks.

The official website of the United States House of Representatives.

The official website of the United States Senate.

Full text of bills in the US House and Senate including each bill version.

The official directory of the US Congress. It includes short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district; committee memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers for Members of Congress; and lists officials of the courts, military establishments, and other Federal departments and agencies, including D.C. government officials, governors of states and territories, foreign diplomats, and members of the press, radio, and television galleries.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session.

The Congressional Record Index (CRI) serves as the index to the Congressional Record.

The History of Bills lists legislative actions on bills that are reported in the Congressional Record.

Public and private laws are also known as slip laws. A slip law is an official publication of the law and is competent evidence admissible in all state and Federal courts and tribunals of the United States. Public laws affect society as a whole, while private laws affect an individual, family, or small group.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.

The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress.

The United States Code is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

The highest court in the United States

The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It covers all audio from the 1970 term forward, and selective audio coverage from 1955 to 1970. Note that their main focus is audio materials, but they provide abstracts for a portion of cases, and links to opinions "in every case decided by the Court back to 1793.

Covers Supreme Court opinions from 1791 forward and Federal Appellate Cases from 1951 forward, and Federal District Court cases from various years. You can select by court, and then year. There is a search box at the top, but it searches the entire site rather than just the cases