Politics and Government Resources

Politics and Government Resources*

Government

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The White House

The House of Representatives
GOP.gov: House Republican Conference
The Speaker's News Page
House Democratic Leadership Page
House Clerk's Office: House Proceedings
House Rules Committee: rules, schedules

The Senate
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Senate Democratic Policy Committee

THOMAS: Legislative Information
Congressional (108th) Pictoral Directory: PDFs
Congress.org: Information on Congress

The Judiciary
The Supreme Court
The Federal Judicial Center

Other Federal Sites
FirstGov.gov: the first place to look
FedWorld Information Services: database

State Sites
National Governors' Association
National Conference of State Legislatures
StateNet.com: legislation and regulation

Georgia Sites
Georgia.gov: guide to Georgia government
Georgia Governor
Secretary of State: elections and regulations
Other Executive Departments
Georgia General Assembly
Judicial Branch of Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia

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Parties, Partisans, and Ideologues	<Back
Democrats Democratic National Committee Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Democrats.com: blog	Republicans Republican National Committee National Republican Congressional Committee National Republican Senatorial Committee ElectGOP.net: State Republican parties
Other Parties Communist Party U.S.A. Constitution Party Democratic Socialists of America International Society for Individual Liberty Green Parties world wide	Libertarian Party Natural Law Party New Party Reform Party Socialist Party U.S.A.
Liberal Organizations AFL-CIO: Labor American Civil Liberties Union The Campaign for American's Future: "progressive" The Feminist Majority The Interfaith Alliance: counter "religious extremists" Moveon.org: "democracy in action" Moving Ideas: collection of liberal organizations National Abortion Rights Action League National Committee for an Effective Congress National Organization for Women People for the American Way: "progressive" activism WebActive and NetAction: progressive activism	Conservative Organizations The Christian Coalition Concerned Women for America ConservativeTruth.org: "conservative commentary" The Federalist Society: conservative and libertarian Free Conservatives: "conservative ideals" The John Birch Society National Rifle Association National Right to Life Committee The Right Side of the Web RightTurns.com: commentary, insight, resources The "Right" Web Search Page! Townhall.com: conservative news and information
Others American Israel Public Affairs Committee The Concord Coalition: "fiscal responsibility" The New Democrat Network: "pro-growth, pro-family"

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General Guides	<Back
Government The American Presidency: a history from Grolier Online Congressional Guide (New York Times) Congressional Quarterly Congressional Observer Publications: congressional roll calls GovSpot: Useful government information of all types National Political Index: links to politics and government	Elections & Voting Ballot Access News The Center for Voting and Democracy Council on Foreign Relations: tracks the candidates DemocracyNet: League of Women Voters Federal Election Commission: campaign data Follow the Money: state contribution information OpenSecretes.org: extensive campaign contribution information PoliticalMoneyLine: FEC date in a more useful format Politics1: Information on parties, candidates and issues Project Vote Smart: tracks candidates, officals and issues The Vanishing Voter Project Voter and registration demographics: from the Census Bureau Vote.com: let people "vote" on public issues WhiteHouse '04: the presidential election
Policy & Issues Cato Institute: libertarian think tank Center for Public Integrity: impact of money on policy Heritage Foundation: the conservative think tank Policy.com: major national issues from various perspectives Public Agenda: nonpartisan research on major issues
Other The Gallup Poll Gender Gap: women in government and the military Political Information: searches 5,000 sites Political Site of the Day Political Science Resources: international collection of links Pollingreport.com: tracks trends in public opinion self-gov.org: test you political leanings

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Political Media & Commentary	<Back
The Atlantic Policy & Society: from the Atlantic Online C-SPAN: Program schedules and TV/Radio feeds Commentary eVote: with news and features on "the Great Game of Politics." Fast Politics: links to political news from many sources Foreign Policy: The venerable magazine of international politics The Hill: Capitol Hill news	National Review Online: conservative The New Republic Online: liberal Roll Call Online: Capitol Hill news Salon politics Slate: Microsoft's magazine of politics and culture washingtonpost.com/Politics

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Searching the Net

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Google: site popularity. Includes Groups, government, and image
Alta Vista offers efficient Web search
Yahoo: Subject guide and free-text searching of the Web
All the Web, formerly known as Fast Search, is quick and simple
Excite's concept searching is highly effective
Hotbot now comes to you from Lycos
Search.com: CNet lists many obscure, topic-oriented engines
Ask Jeeves searching with a human touch

Ixquick searches multiple search engines.
Dogpile and Metacrawler offer simultaneous searches
Looksmart searches a selection of sites chosen by humans
About.com: human-assembled mini-sites on variety of topics.
Britannica adds human judgment, effective presentation
Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) sites
The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences health related sites
Topica and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists

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Collections for Journalists

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Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
National Archives: Government records
DefenseLink News from the U.S. Department of Defense
State and local government websites from Piper Resources
GPO Access searches Government publications
Thomas: Library of Congress information.
Census Bureau, 2000 Census and Ferret: population and income
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Criminal justice links from Florida State University
United Nations and U.N. Web locator
The European Journalism page

Newsahead upcoming news events around the globe
FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
Top 200 Government contractors from Government Executive
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Federal freedom of information officers
New York State Freedom Of Information page
The Freedom Forum Journalism and first amendment issues
John Makulowich's list of web resources
Power Reporting: Bill Dedman's journalism resources.
The Wayback Machine archives many Web pages back to 1996.

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Reference

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Research It all-in-one reference: dictionary, quotes, translators
LibrarySpot Extensive guide to online reference works
YourDictionary.com and Onelook: hundreds of dictionaries
Encyclopaedia Britannica (fee for full articles.)
Roget's Internet Thesaurus
Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary, Encyclopedia
Biography.com: brief, cross-referenced biographies
The Elements of Style The 1918 version
C.I.A. World Factbook
Library of Congress: including Marvel and Locis
The New York Public Library
The World Wide Web Virtual Library

IngentaConnect Free citations; charge for full articles
Law Guru: access to legal search engines and Internet Law Library
Find A Lawyer from West's Legal Directory
Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
The U.S. Constitution from the National Archives
I.R.S. information and publications.
For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
Social Security death index
Consumer World: finance rates, contacts, consumer information
Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
U.S. Naval Observatory clock

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Publications on the Net	<Back
Breaking News & Daily Publications ABC News: top news, current ABC radio report, and video clips. Agence France-Presse world report from Yahoo Asia BBC News: British Broadcasting Corporation CNN Interactive and CNN/Money Fox News MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News NPR Online from National Public Radio Boston.com, from The Boston Globe CNet: technology, software, services. news.com: Tech news The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London The Gate, from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle Los Angeles Times Philadelphia Inquirer San Jose Mercury News The Times of London USA Today The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post Poynter Online: media news from everywhere NewsHub: technology business headlines from major Web sites News Index and TotalNews search for breaking news on the Web 1stHeadlines offers headlines from 50-some news organizations. Newspaper archives on the Web: Special Libraries Association Wired News	Magazines & Features The Atlantic The Drudge Report Law.com merged several sources of legal news into a single site The New Yorker: More and less than the venerable magazine The Onion and Modern Humorist: Comic relief Rolling Stone Slate, Salon: cyber-literary-trends. Salon charges for material. United Media, a collection of comics U.S. News
	Guides to Many Publications Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcasts. Ecola: news directory Editor & Publisher's MediaInfo Links NewsVoyager.com: local newspapers Project Gutenberg puts out-of-copyright literary works online

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*While I would like to take credit for an extensive and well-organized page, much of this page is derived from two sites on the New York Times web site: the Politics Navigator (http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/polpoints.html) and the CyberTimes Navigator (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html), both maintained by Richard Meislin on the New York Times web site. To access their complete lists, you must register with the Times, but the registration is free, and it gives you complete access to the entire online version of the newspaper.
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