University of Southern Maine LibGuides - Government Documents

Key Resources

General Resources:

U.S. Government Search - via Google. Includes U.S. federal, state and local sites with domains such as .gov, .mil as well as select government sites with .com, .us, and .edu domains. No non-governmental sites are included.
USA.gov - Official portal to U.S. government information, organized by topic.
U.S. Federal Government - Alphabetical Agency list; Executive, Judicial & Legislative Branches.
GPO Access - Portal to all the online publications archived by the Government Printing Office. It includes all major Congressional publications, and selected material from the Executive and Judicial branches.

The President:

The White House - source for current information about the President's activities and programs, including press briefings and the latest presidential proclamations and directives.

Executive Agencies:

A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies

Congress:

Made up by the Senate and the House of Representatives

Thomas: Legislative Information, including bills and resolutions, public laws, roll call votes, the Congressional Record and Index, Committee reports, Presidential nominations and treaties.

The Federal Judiciary:

U.S. Courts - the official web site for U.S. Federal courts, with links to the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Courts. There are also links to full text reports and statistics on the court system.

Statistics:

Statistical Abstract of the United States - compilation of statistics on the social, political, and economic themes for the United States. It is searchable or easily browsed by 30 main topics. The Statistical Abstract is available from 1878-present, and all tables can be viewed as PDFs or downloaded as Excel files.

Statistical Abstract data is presented primarily at the national level. All tables are footnoted to the specific source publication, for more specific data. There are also links to the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book

Fedstats - gateway to Statistics from Over 100 U.S Federal Agencies.

American FactFinder - portal to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including the Decennial Census of Population and Housing, American Community Survey, Economic Census, Annual Survey of Manufactures, County Business Patterns, and Population Estimates Program. FactFinder also allows you to map the data to various levels of geography.

STAT-USA - Access to business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government. State of the Nation includes current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. GLOBUS and NTBD provides current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunites, country analysis and the trade library: the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB). From the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Ready Reference:

Core Documents of American Democracy

Documents in the News (U. of Michigan)

Government Publications By Title

Laws, Bills, Regulations

Census Of Population And Housing