Government Documents Information

Provides answers to the full range of questions that students, government professionals, interested citizens, and other researchers have about the institutions of U.S. government.

Dictionary of words and phrases descriptive of American elections alphabetically arranged, followed by concise and readable essays defining them.

Encyclopedia of data (current through Clinton) of data devoted to U.S. cabinets and their members.

Describes and explains the history, functions, and relationships of Congress.

"The ultimate resource for authoritative information on the American Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court."

Provides historical background on the American presidency, the organization of the executive branch, and presidential elections.

User-friendly introduction to the justices, famous cases, and major topics of the Supreme Court.

Over 200 articles about issues (abortion, gun control), legal concepts (due process, privacy), landmark cases (Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education), and people (John Adams, Thurgood Marshall) related to the Constitution.

Published by the US Congress (through the combined efforts of the Senate Historical Office and the Legislative Resource Center of the House of Representatives), this guide provides over 13,000 biographies. Includes biographies of individuals who served in any of the US national legislatures, to include the Continental Congress. Though not browse able, visitors may search the database by name, position, or state.

The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE.

Provides current information on members of the House with searching by name and state.

Provides current information on members of the Senate with searching by state, name, or class.

Presents short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district. Also includes officials of the courts, military establishments, and other Federal departments and agencies, including D.C. government officials, governors of states and territories, foreign diplomats, and members of the press, radio, and television galleries.

Provides photographs of members of Congress from 105th Congress onwards.

“The Diplomatic List, of missions in the U.S., is prepared by the Office of Protocol. It contains the names of members of the diplomatic staffs of all missions and their spouses. Members of the diplomatic staff are the members of the staff of the mission having diplomatic rank. These persons, with the exception of those identified by asterisks, enjoy full immunity under provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”

Maintained by Louisiana State University, based on the entries in the United States Government Manual

Includes links to government sites for areas ranging from government telephone directories to how to contact the government.

Provides links to a list of federal agencies, telephone directories, and yellow pages.

Provides information on the agencies of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the Federal government. Also includes details about: boards; commissions; committees; and quasi-official agencies and organizations in which the United States participates.

Provides a grid of cabinet departments and independent agencies, with links to agency’s web site, on-line publications, forms, organizational charts, and opinions as applicable.

Searchable by state and district. Also provides political profile for each district as well as demographic statistics.

Search for biographies of members of congress since the 91st Congress.

Frames index expands to list federal government information agencies in each branch, includes brief description of the organization’s mission as well as a web link.

Provides directory information for both public and private agencies in the Washington, D.C. area.