General Information
- - The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
- - Annual handbook of the federal government (1935 to present).
Executive Branch Information
- (PPPUS) - Text of presidential speeches and statements (1929-).
- - Papers released since the most recent edition of PPPUS.
Congressional Information
- Debates - What was said in Congress.
- - Biographies of members of Congress from 1774 to the present.
Laws
- - Consolidated legislation, organized by subject.
- - Annual collection of all laws passed during a given session, from 1789 to the present. Contains treaties prior to 1945.
- - Text of laws are added here as they are enacted (1995-). Good source for laws not yet integrated into the U.S. Code or Statutes at Large.
- - Consolidation of regulations, organized by subject.
Statistics
- - Business, trade, and economic statistics.
- - Yearly publication covering a wide range of current and recent statistics (1878-). Recommended as a starting point.
- - Contains data from colonial times through the twentieth century.
- - Gateway to labour and economic statistics.
- Census
- (PDFs of the census print publications)
- (state and county level database)
- - Replaces the long form of the decennial census, providing population figures on a more frequent basis.
- - Useful descriptive guide to ACS data.
Indexes and Full Text Documents
- - Reports and documents submitted to Congress from 1817-1980. Collection to be completed in 2009..
- - U.S. federal publications since 1976, with links to online content.
- - Full text of several congressional publications. Coverage years vary.
- - Archives several government publications, mostly legal in nature.
- - Full text congressional documents from the late 1980s to the present.
- - Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1875.
- (Library of Congress) - Access to pivotal government documents from 1763-1877.
- - Declassified intelligence documents.
- - Annual report on the state of the U.S. economy, with useful statistical tables. Includes all reports back to 1947.
- - Publications of the RAND Corporation, sometimes commissioned by the government.
Related Guides
- Finding U.S. Congressional Reports/Documents/Hearings in the McGill University
- Foreign Relations of the United States series at McGill University
- - Comprehensive guide to researching the legislative history of a bill.
