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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Digital Registry is a directory listing of U.S. Government publication digitization efforts. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive listing of all these digitization efforts. Included in the listings are: An overview of the project. The institution(s) and partners involved in the digitization. The scope of the digitization project (e.g., by volume, year, Congress, administration, geographic region). The status of the project (planning phase, in-progress, completed). Technical specifications of the digitization output (e.g., file format, metadata schema). Whether a digitization project is seeking collaborative assistance. A link to the publicly-accessible digitized content.
This inventory focuses on those War Department and Department of the Army Technical Manuals that were primarily received into the general collections from the1940s to the 1970s. In this publication we have not attempted to provide a bibliography of those items that can be easily found in the catalog under their classification. This inventory DOES attempt to provide detail on items that were classed separately or were received as reprints
This geographic names data set provides a "mashup" of URLs for official city and county government web sites and city and county location data from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). GNIS data includes incorporated places, census designated areas, unincorporated places, counties, and populated places.
USGovXML is an index to publically available web services and XML data sources that are provided by the US government. USGovXML indexes data sources from all 3 branches of government as well as its boards, commissions, corporations and independent agencies.
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
The Stanford WebBase project has been collecting topic focused snapshots of Web sites. All the resulting archives are available to the public via fast download streams. For example, we collected pages from 350 sites every day for several weeks after the Katrina hurricane disaster. We also collect pages from government Web sites on a regular basis.
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.