United States
Government
- USA.gov - The US Government’s Official Web Portal
- The United States Government Manual - official handbook of the American federal government
- The Oxford Guide to the United States government
- US Government Publishing Office: - Government publications database
- Foreign Relations of the United States - major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity
- State Agency Databases Project - publically available databases produced by an agency of a state government or a political subdivision (i.e. county, city, school district, library district, etc.)
- Primary Documents in American History - 1763-1877 (Library of Congress)
- Hathi Trust: United States Federal Government Documents
- U.S. Government Information: Yale University Libraries – subject and agency lists
- U.S. Embassy - Canada
- Homeland Security Digital Library Free collection of 80 000 public documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.
Executive branch
- The White House
- Obama White House Archives
- Executive Branch websites(Library of Congress)
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (PPPUS) - text of presidential speeches and statements
- Regulations.gov
- Federal Register (National Archives) Official text of federal laws, presidential documents and administrative regulartions
- U.S. Government Information: 2016 Election Documents - official documents, related to controversies of the 2016 Presidential election.
Congressional
- House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- Congress.gov - full text access to Congressional legislative documents, such as The Congressional Record, Senate and House Bills, Committee Information & reports (1995 - present) and to historical documents
- Congressional Record (1994-present)
- Congressional Record - Internet Archive (1873-1996)
- Congressional Globe - Library of Congress - congressional debates of the 23rd through 42nd Congresses (1833-73)
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs - Information provided by the U.S. State Department
- Every CRS Report - every CRS report that’s available on Congress’s internal website. CRS is Congress’ think tank, and its reports are relied upon by academics, businesses, judges, policy advocates, students, librarians, journalists, and policymakers for accurate and timely analysis of important policy issues.
- GovTrack.us - tracking activities of U.S. Congress
- Register of Debates of Congress - includes Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe and Congressional Record
- Library of Congress - access to LC catalogues, etc.
- Library of Congress Government Web Resources - links to official federal government websites listed in alphabetical order by name of agency (see section "Browse Government Resources")
Laws
- United States Code - consolidation of the general and permanent laws of the United States
- Public and Private Laws - Text of laws are added here as they are enacted (1995-)
- Code of Federal Regulations - consolidation of U.S. regulations
- FindLaw - resources and links to both federal and state laws
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Law Library of Congress - U.S. Judiciary