U.S. Politics & Government: Government on the Web: Congress / Executive / Judiciary

Provided by the U.S. Congress.

Provides streaming video broadcasts of House and Senate sessions, debates, and selected hearings, some as far back as 1987.

Includes the Journals of the Continental Congress, debates from the Constitutional Convention, Statutes at Large, the Congressional Globe, Annals of Congress, American State Papers, and more.

Congress.gov is the official source for federal legislative information. It replaces the nearly 20-year-old THOMAS.gov site with a new and still growing system.

Provides the following Congressional databases and more:
Congressional Bills 103rd Congress (1993-94) - present
Congressional Documents 94th Congress (1975-76) - present
Congressional Hearings 99th Congress (1985-86) - present
Congressional Reports 104th Congress (1995-96) - present
Congressional Record (daily) volume 140 (1994) - present

"Nine videos explain each of the common legislative stages, and that the process by which a bill becomes law is rarely predictable."

Contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports bound by session of Congress. It began publication with the 15th Congress, 1st Session (1817). Provided by the HaithTrust. See selected Serial Set documents from the 23rd to the 64th Congress.

The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It currently holds over 76,100 documents related to the study of the Presidency, including public papers, radio addresses to Congress, State of Union Addresses, and more. Material covered begins in the eighteenth century and continues forward.

Choose Title 3 for the annual cummulation of the text of Executive Orders and Proclamations.

An annual report illustrating the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress. Includes text and data appendices.

Includes executive orders and proclamations as they become effective (from 1994+).

Links to biographical information about presidents. (Part of the Internet Public Library)

Contains public speeches and statements of the Presidents.

Maintained by the Museum of the Moving Image, this site offers short clips of Presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2008.

Contains transcripts of official Presidential statements since 1993. Type WCPD in main search box.

Includes searchable speeches, documents, and policies.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is the primary source for criminal justice statistics. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and publish information on crime, criminal offenders, victims, and the operation of justice systems at all levels. Data is available in varied formats: PDF, spreadsheets, HTML, and/or text.

The education and research agency for the Federal Courts. Provides a Federal Judges Biographical Database, containing service records of all judges of the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Circuit Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789. Includes texts of landmark legislation and other full-text publications.

FindLaw is one of the better free legal resources on the web. Now owned by WestGroup, this site provides a subject guide to internet legal resources and keyword searchable federal case law. U.S. Supreme Court opinions are available from volume 150 of the U.S. Reports (1893) to the present. Findlaw also provides links to state legal resources - state constitutions, codes, court rules, and state supreme court and appeals decisions. LawCrawler is the FindLaw legal web and database search engine.

Contains links to numerous state and local court sites. Provides state court statistics and some full-text research publications. Includes Topics or guides containing overviews, research, FAQ's, and best practices. Digital Archive offers searchable full-text reports.

The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Includes recent slip opinions, court rules, and in-chamber opinions.

The official website of the Federal Judiciary. This site provides general information on federal courts plus links to U.S. Supreme Court cases, U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts.

DiscoverGov provides one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases including GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo. It will retrieve reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources and publications available online.

Contains important historic U.S. documents in law, history, and diplomacy, including treaties, international agreements, trials, significant presidential papers, and more.

Administers and enforces the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). "The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency."

An independent federal agency that houses and manages original documents and records from America's past. Includes Presidential, Congressional, and Judicial material. Offers keyword searching in archival databases, basic laws and authorities, publications, and more.

"TRAC is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University. The purpose of TRAC is to provide ... comprehensive information about staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government."

The people of the United States vote for the electors who then vote for the President (Electoral College). The Federal Register Office coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, and Congress. This website provides a description of the functions and responsibilities of the Electoral College, historical election results from 1789, teaching resources, and more.

Provides comprehensive information on the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.

"The Plum Book, updated every four years, is a listing of over 9,000 civil service leadership and support positions (filled and vacant) in the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointments."