Posts filed under 'U.S. Government'
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.”
Add comment November 27, 2007
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
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.
Add comment October 17, 2007
