Tools for tracking what’s going on in Govn’t

Use these tools to track what’s happening in Congress. Most sites offer an RSS feed.

OpenCongress.org
From the Sunlight Foundation “OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.” View bills, senator profiles, issues, and more.

GovTrack
Info about the United States Congress. Includes info on status of federal legislation, voting records, and other congressional data from official sources. Provides email updates and RSS/Atom feeds for all aspects of Congress. Search bills by name, number, and subject, and can track bills . The full text of legislation shows the changes made to the bill.

MetaVid
“Metavid is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings.”

U.S. Federal Govn’t Info

Digital national security archive
Database contains comprehensive collections of declassified documents, and new collections will be added yearly. Data is owned by the National Security Archive.

Declassified documents reference system
The database ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and others.

Foreign Relations of the United States. US Dept of State

• http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html
• http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

Thomas
Provides free access to a wide range of legislative information on the Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 103rd to the present Congress, a directory of congressional committees and members of Congress, the weekly floor schedule for the House, and a schedule of daily committee hearings. Includes text of “How our laws are made,” by Edward F. Willett Jr.

Thanks to Gretchen Gano, Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information for compiling this list.

International Documents and Govn’t Info

Government Information, International Documents Research Guide

NYU law library,foreign and int’l legal databases
International law databases – summary list from NYU law homepage

Governments on the WWW
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions, including parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, & multi-governmental institutions (Gunnar Anzinger).

Foreign Governments
Comprehensive directory of foreign government offices, including key ministries and departments. (Northwestern University).

Election World on Wikipedia

Thanks to Gretchen Gano, Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information, for compiling this info.

Finding United Nations Documents

AccessUN [NYU Only]
Provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed. Indexing of the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series is another unique feature of the Index.

UNBIS Net
“Catalog of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York and the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.” NOTE: NYU Libraries has a very large collection of U.N. documents located on the 6th floor of Bobst Library and open to the public. Use UNBIS Net to identify the documents.

UN Data
From the United Nations Statistical Division. Statistical data from countries from around the world.

Thanks to Gretchen Gano, Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information for compiling this list!