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Infomine - Government Information

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United States

• List of Federal Agency Internet Sites GPO Access

California

• California state home page - link to Government section or find information by subject or agency or set up a profile to personalize your own MyCalifornia page.
• Federal agency offices in California - section coming soon!

• House of Representatives
• GPO Access - connects to the official Congressional Directory
• Congressional Universe - use "Members" file
• Senate home page
• Congress.org - Find your representative in Congress and send him or her a message
• Members of Congress from California, from Vote-Smart
• Capweb - members of Congress from California - other states too, lookup your representative by zip code

• California Senate - List of Senators and look up your Senator or use district maps
• California Assembly - Member Directory or Find your district

• Congressional Bills - for full text, current status and legislative tracking, use the following sources
  • GPO Access
  • Thomas
  • Congressional Universe UC users only
• Hearings - full text in the following sources
  • GPO Access - from 1998 forward
  • Congressional Universe - abstracts from 1970, full-text from 1988 plus current testimony UC users only
• Congressional Record - full text from the following sources
  • GPO Access - from 1994
  • Congressional Universe - from 1985 UC users only
  • Thomas - from 1994
• Votes
  • House votes House of Representatives
  • Senate votes Senate
  • Key Votes Congressional Universe
• Committees
  • Congressional Universe - member information UC users only
  • House Committees
  • Senate Committees
• Public Laws - for full-text, use the following sources
  • GPO Access - public laws since 1995
  • Thomas - public laws since 1995
  • Congressional Universe - public laws since 1988 UC users only
• Regulations - for full-text, use the following sources
  • GPO Access - Searchable Code of Federal Regulations
    • Search the Federal Register from 1995 to current day
  • Congressional Universe - federal register from 1980, current Code of Federal Regulations UC users only
• Calendars
  • Senate Calendar
  • House current Calendar
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• USDA 
  • Agencies within USDA
• Census of Agriculture - 1982, 1987, 1992 from Cornell University Libraries
• 1997 Census of Agriculture - from the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service Economics and Statistics System
• California Department of Food and Agriculture
• Foreign Agricultural Trade of the U.S. (FATUS) - Economic Research Service
• Agricultural Statistics (USDA)
• Cornell University, Mann Library's Economic Research Service Statistics
• USDA AMS News Service
• Food and Agriculture Organization

• Federal Budget - latest
• California Budget - latest
• University of California Budgets
• California Department of Finance Home page
  • Financial and Economic Data
• Tax Information
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • California Franchise tax Board
• U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reports
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

• California Department of Education
• Guide to California colleges and universities (California Postsecondary Education Commission
• University of California System
• U.S. Department of Education
• Title IV School Codes

• California Elections and Voter Information
• 2000 Election Web Site
• Voter Information Guide
• Easy Reading Voter Guide
• California Voter Foundation
• Sacramento Voter Registration and Elections
• Capitol Alert - Campaign 2000

• CNN - AllPolitics
• Project Vote Smart
• C-SPAN - Campaign 2000
• League of Women Voters - National Voter
• MSNBC.com - Decision 2000
• Washington Post.com - Politics
• The Michigan Electronic Library - U.S. Politics and Elections
• Election 2000 - University of Michigan Documents Center
• Yahoo! Politics

Campaign Finance

• Federal Election Commission
• FEC Info
• Follow the Money
• Center for Responsive Politics
• California Campaign Finance

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• Environmental Protection Browse Topic list from GPO Access
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Envirofacts Warehouse - find data on major EPA programs like
    • Safe Drinking Water
    • Superfund
    • Air Releases
    • Toxic Release Inventory
    • Hazardous Waste
  • Envirosense - pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and data bases
  • Laws and Regulations
  • National Service Center for Environmental Publications
• CERES - California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• American Memory Project Library of Congress
• Historical Documents from Thomas by the Library of Congress. Includes Continental Congress papers, Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Federalist P apers.
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873. Includes the Continental Congress Journals, House and Senate Journals, Annals of Congress and oth er documents.
• United States Historical Census Data Browser - Data from 1790 - 1960 Statistical reports
• Foreign Relations of the United States - from the Office of the Historian, U.S. Dept. of State, includes a Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History and list of titles in the Foreign Relations of the U.S. series. Older volumes of Foreign Relations of the United States are available from a UW site, FRUS 1900-1901,1903-1918
• National Security Archive
• NARA Archival Information Locator
• Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties, (Kappler's) 1778-1883 (Volume II)
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774 to present
• California Constitutional Convention, 1849
• California State Archives and State Museum
• California History and Culture - organizations

Scientific and Technical Information

Guides:	Technical Reports Guide from UC Davis
	Technical Reports Guide from UC Irvine
	Scientific Publications in Government Sources prepared at UC Irvine

• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• SciTechResources.gov - a catalog of U.S. government scientific and technical resources
• Department of Energy
  • DOE Information Bridge
  • Energy Citations Database - Citations for DOE and predecessor agency reports back to 1948.
  • PubScience
  • Graylit Network - DO/DTIC, DOE,EPA and NASA are participating agencies in providing access to gray literature
• NASA Scientific and Technical Information
• Trademarks - search USPTO
• Patents - search USPTO

• American Factfinder - Census Bureau data manipulation site
• Census Bureau - home page
• Fedstats - gateway to U.S. government statistical data from various Federal agencies
• Rand California - California statistics
• California Statistical Abstract
• Counting California

Foreign Trade 

• Foreign Trade Statistics from the Census Bureau, current and historical monthly data
• STAT-USA - statistical data and more from the U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. International Trade Administration
  • ITA Trade Statistics
  • U.S. Exports and Imports by 10 digit Harmonized Code, latest full year and latest month to date.
• FATUS - Foreign Agricultural Trade of the U.S.
• Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S.
• World Trade Organization
• California Trade and Commerce Agency - International Trade and Investment Statistics

Domestic Commerce

• U.S. Department of Commerce home page
• Census Bureau Economic Programs home page
  • 1997 Economic Census data
  • NAICS Classification
  • County Business Patterns - 1998 data from Censtats
• U.S. Business Advisor - link to all the information and services the Federal government provides for the business community
• California Business Agencies - from the California State home page