There are several organizations that collect and give access to subsets of published CRS Reports. This collection attempts to bring all CRS Reports together in one place. Stanford
EveryCRSReport.com includes more than eight thousand CRS reports. The number changes regularly. It has every CRS report that’s available on Congress’s internal website. We redact the phone number, email address, and names of virtually all the analysts from the reports. We add disclaimer language regarding copyright and the role CRS reports are intended to play. That’s it. If you’re looking for older reports, our good friends at CRSReports.com may have them.
The Legislative Research Special Interest Section of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. Nearly all the sources and research tools available, both free and commercial
nearly all the sources and research tools available, both free and commercial. From the The Legislative Research Special Interest Section of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
The Cyber Vault project will monitor and illuminate key aspects of U.S. national security activities as a means of enhancing public understanding and government accountability. National Security Archive, George Washington University.
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number of organizations/volunteers have built http://legislink.org/us,
provides all statutes at large, public law cites, and US code cites from 1787 to present. It also allows for the instantaneous comparison of any two roll call votes since ~1990.
The Hamilton Project seeks to advance America's promise of opportunity, prosperity, and growth. We believe that today's increasingly competitive global economy demands public policy ideas commensurate with the challenges of the 21st Century. The Project's economic strategy reflects a judgment that long-term prosperity is best achieved by fostering economic growth and broad participation in that growth, by enhancing individual economic security, and by embracing a role for effective government in making needed public investments.
We harvest and store America’s local government meeting records like agendas, minutes and support documents. These records include a wide variety of information including legislative, administrative, procurement, financial, and much more. Along with our open-API we offer services such as analysis, curation, customized search engines for your enterprise, and a host of other services to support your needs. Our initial service is MuniFocus – providing timely financial intelligence to the investor marketplace. Target Sector: The $3.7 trillion municipal bond network, nearly three-quarters controlled by individual investors. cities local government municipal
Harvested by: Library Services and Content Management, U.S. Government Publishing Office. To provide permanent public access to Federal Agency Web content, the Federal Depository Library Program harvests selected U.S. Government Web sites in their entirety. Access to these sites is made available through links in our online public access catalog, the Catalog of U. S. Government Publications http://catalog.gpo.gov.
BACM Research - Paperless Archives provides historical documents, primary source material, early secondary sources, and histories that allow access to historical and often once secret documents, recordings, photos, video and audio.
a database of officially declassified U.S. Government documents stretching more than 600,000 pages. The idea is to create the largest Paranormal and Government Conspiracy research center in the world. John Greenewald, Jr., the creator of The Black Vault, began researching a vast array of topics by utilizing the Freedom of Information Act. Also an online community comprised of people from around the globe.
a corpus of 1 million documents that are freely available for research and may be (to the best of our knowledge) freely redistributed. These documents were obtained by performing searches for words randomly chosen from the Unix dictionary, numbers randomly chosen between 1 and 1 million, and randomized combinations of the two, for documents of specified file types that resided on web servers in the .gov domain using the Yahoo an Google search engines.
The Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy. It collects the research of three Wilson Center projects which focus on the interrelated histories of the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation.
The White House developed Project Open Data -- this collection of code, tools, and case studies -- to help agencies adopt the Open Data Policy and unlock the potential of government data. Project Open Data will evolve over time as a community resource to facilitate broader adoption of open data practices in government. Anyone – government employees, contractors, developers, the general public – can view and contribute.
National Security Agency has now released declassified copies of the VENONA messages. All of the released documents are available for review at the Museum Library
odd, obsucred links to online books including gutenberg, and government books but also, perhaps, pirated copies of copyrighted books? over 100,000 free online books and ebooks. All books are sorted and categorized automatically by a computer program. Some of them might have been misplaced in a wrong category.
BEA digital library of seminal documents related to the history of the U.S. national economic accounts. The library includes key Survey of Current Business articles from the 1930s through the 1990s, early reports by the Department of Commerce on the measurement of national income and product, volumes from the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Annual Review articles through 1974, and selected other documents
a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner.
“insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics.
Discover the data behind the Department of Energy's scientific publications. Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines.
Sunlight Foundation. This bipartisan, collaborative initiative will study the Senate’s current information-sharing practices to recommend how to improve public access to the Senate’s work on the Web. This project is modeled off of Sunlight’s parallel initiative, the Open House Project.
here's a lot of great information out there about politics — votes, lobbying records, campaign finance reports. Unfortunately, it's split across a dozen different web sites and often hidden behind confusing interfaces. We're pulling all of that together and letting you explore it in one elegant, unified interface. (Plus, we're sharing all the results so you can come up with new ways to explore it.)
designed to provide quick and easy access to a wide range of data on tax rates, collections and overall tax burdens. All data are posted in Excel when available.
Collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Organizations Involved: The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA - www.gwla.org) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL - www.crl.edu).
The rule proposal often includes a call for public comments, which are maintained in the federal docket. Here's where both the docket and the language for the rule can be found. Searching through the docket is a good way to determine the parties interested in a particular rule.
The Regulatory Information Service Center (RISC)'s principal publication is the Unified Agenda, which is published in the spring and fall of each year. Since 1978, Federal agencies have been required by Executive orders to publish agendas of regulatory and deregulatory activities. The Regulatory Plan, which is published as part of the fall edition of the Agenda, identifies regulatory priorities and contains additional detail about the most important significant regulatory actions that agencies expect to take in the coming year.
The Federal Audit Clearinghouse operates on behalf of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Purposes: To disseminate audit information to Federal agencies and the public; To support OMB oversight and assessment of Federal award audit requirements; To assist Federal cognizant and oversight agencies in obtaining OMB Circular A-133 data and reporting packages; To help auditors and auditees minimize the reporting burden of complying with Circular A-133 audit requirements.
The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted.
NDIIPP Project. The Minnesota Historical Society is working with representatives from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the California Digital Library (CDL), as well as representatives from the states of California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Vermont who are involved in preserving and providing access to government information. The goal of working with these partners is to address common concerns in preserving state government digital information. The All Partners Meeting held in December 2008 was the first time that all of the representatives were brought together.
Formerly called The United States Government Internet Manual, e-Government and Web Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web. The book contains more than 2,000 site records that provide descriptions and URLs for each site. Evaluations are given for the most important and frequently sought sites.
Makes federal legislative information freely available to the public. Since that time THOMAS has expanded the scope of its offerings to include the features and content listed below. Bills, Resolutions, Activity in Congress, Congressional Record, Schedules, Calendars, Committee Information, Presidential Nominations, Treaties.