• Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and the Response to Hurricane Katrina
• The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned (The White House report)
• USA Patriot Act (the full text of the law)
• State of the Union Addresses (includes previous addresses beginning with 1992)

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• Falling through the net : defining the digital divide (published by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and mentioned by President Clinton in his 2000 State of the Union speech)
• White House Home Page

• Supreme Court of the United States (Provides access to information about the Court's current term, including slip opinions and orders (starting in 1999), argument calendar, and schedules, as well as general information)
• U.S. House of Representatives: Committee on the Judiciary

• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate Home Page
• Congress.Org (searchable member directories and current awareness)
• Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses
• U.S. Code Classification Table  (produced by the U.S. House Law Revision Counsel.  It includes recent changes to the US Code.)
• U.S. Code All laws (titles 1 through 50) in effect as of January 28, 1998 are contained in Supplement 3. Titles 1 through 41 for laws in effect as of January 5, 1999,  are contained in Supplement 4. Please remember that the "supplements," as GPO titles its databases, are actually full versions of the 1994 U.S. Code as modified by the subsequent supplements that are published annually by the Law Revision Counsel. Therefore, unless you are performing historical research of past versions, you would want to search the most recent "supplement" that contains your title for the most up-to-date information.
• U.S. House of Representatives:Committee on Rules

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• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)

  American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!) 

  Family Search : Internet Genealogy Service (Extensive records made available by the Morman Church)

  FindLaw

  State and Local Government on the Net (a directory of official state, county, and city government websites.)  

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• Country Studies (from the Library of Congress; online version of the white books located in Reference section) 
• National Security Archives (maintained at George Washington University.)  
• U.S. State Department Home Page
• United Nations 

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• Monthly Retail Trade Data (Includes retail e-commerce sales data and e-commerce Frequently Asked Questions)
• United States Post Office (Find zip codes quickly, get stamps online, and much more)
• Federal Consumer Information Center (Established in 1966, the FCIC is a single point of contact for people who have questions about Federal agencies, programs, and services)
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (includes current information on product recalls and warnings)

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• U.S. Department of Education (contains links to a wide range of educational programs and literature)
• ERIC (Search the ERIC database, the world's largest bibliographic database of education literature, for education-related reports and journal articles, beginning in 1966.)
• ChildStats (offers access to federal and state statistics on children and their families including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education)
• National Center for Education Statistics 

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• Federal IRS Tax Forms (This site is called The Digital Daily.  Click on "Forms and pubs" at  the bottom of the page.)
• Pennsylvania State Tax Forms
• Pa.direct.file (allows taxpayers to file their PA returns over the Internet for free.  Also offers direct deposit of refunds and an electronic method to pay any taxes due.)
• Tax forms from all 50 states (maintained by Louisiana State University)
• EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System ; database of filings submitted by companies to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission )
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (produced by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) (provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including U.S. interest rates, monetary business indicators, exchange rates, and  balance of payments)

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• Proposed Ergonomics Standard from OSHA
• PubMed (National Library of Medicine index to medical journal literature)
• Medline Plus (provides access to information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to self-help groups, consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, clinical trials and more.  
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Healthfinder (Gateway to health and human services information, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

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• National Council for Science and the Environment  
• CRS Reports on Space and Policy compiled by the Federation of American Scientists
• World Press.org (interesting collection of links for U.S. maps as well as international maps and maps for places in the news)
• DOE Information Bridge (Access to full text Dept. of Energy research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics) )
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• CRS Reports and Issue Briefs on national security issues compiled by the Federation of American Scientists
• CRS Reports on Nuclear weapons and related topics compiled by the Federation of American Scientists

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• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States 
• Statistical Information (UNT's Government Information Connection)
• Stat-USA (includes U.S. domestic data and international trade data.  Some files are for subscribers only.  Ask at the reference desk for password information.)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• United States Historical Census Data (Data presented here describes the people and economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.  Data is made available with the cooperation of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, ICPSR)

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Documents/Speeches

• Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan. Includes excellent and updated section on current news items) 

Meta-indexes/FAQs

• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (locate all federal agencies via LSU)
• GPO Access (search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office, with mirror, or Gateway, sites at over 20 universities, each with their own strengths.)
• ALA GODORT's CD-ROM Documentation Project
• GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
• Government Information and Depository Management Clearinghouse (ALA GODORT Education Committee)
• Government Publications (maintained at the University of Buffalo)
• Sales Product Catalog via GPO

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