Government Resources on the Web

General and Background Information:

• American FactFinder (http://factfinder.census.gov)
• Code of Federal Regulations (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html)
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html) – Legislative, legal, regulatory, and other documents relating to the democratic process.
• C-SPAN - Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (http://c-span.org) – Access to live proceedings of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
• GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov) – The Government Printing Office
• Fedforms (http://www.fedforms.gov) – Forms from over 500 Federal agencies, including IRS and Immigration forms.
• Febstats (http://www.fedstats.gov) – "One stop shopping" for statistics from Federal government agencies.
• Frequently Asked Questions of the U.S. Government (http://www.faq.gov) – f you don't know where to start, this is the place!
• Poly-cy : Internet resources for Political Science (http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/polycy)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-02.html) – Editions from 2001 and 2002; requires Acrobat Reader.
• United States Government Manual (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html) – 1995 to present

Federal Goverment Departments:

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (http://www.cia.gov)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (http://www.fbi.gov)
• Federal Reserve System (http://www.federalreserve.gov) – The official website of the central bank of the United States.
• Fedworld (http://www.fedworld.gov) – Links to many Federal government websites
• Firstgov (http://www.firstgov.gov) – The U.S. government's official website
• Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov) – The official website of Congress; links to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
• U.S. Supreme Court (http://www.supremecourtus.gov)
• U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (http://www.bcis.gov/graphics/index.htm)
• White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov) – the official website of the President of the United States

State Government:

• California Code of Regulations (www.calregs.com/linkedslice/default.asp&SP=CCR-1000&Action=Welcome)
• California Legislative Information (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov) – Includes the California Codes
• California Statistical Abstract (http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/FS_DATA/stat-abs/toc.ht)
• Counting California (http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org) – Statistical information on California
• State and Local Governments (http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html) – A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
• State of California (http://www.ca.gov)
• U.S. Census Bureau State and County QuickFacts (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd)

Local Governments:

• Cupertino (http://www.cupertino.org)
• Milpitas (http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov)
• Santa Clara (http://www.ci.santa-clara.ca.u)
• San Jose (http://www.ci.san-jose.ca.us)
• Saratoga (http://www.saratoga.ca.u)
• Sunnyvale (http://www.ci.sunnyvale.ca.us)
• Association of Bay Area Governments (http://www.abag.ca.gov)
• Bay Area Census (http://census.abag.ca.gov)
• County of Santa Clara (http://claraweb.co.santa-clara.ca.us)
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission (http://www.mtc.ca.gov)

 

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