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LexisNexis State Capital

State government information from all United States, including legislative statutory, and regulatory information, and news coverage about state governments.

LexisNexis Congressional

U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext.

U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide

Footnote - The place for original documents online

a source for US government documents. Free content includes; documents in the US Milestone Project, Pennsylvania archives and the UFO reports in Project Bluebook.

Prelinger Library Blog: Google Book Search treats government documents as copyrighted material

A post describing the Google Books policy regarding government publications and the public domain. Arggh

OpenCongress

OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.

OpenCongress brings together, for the first time in one place, all the best data on what's really happening in Congress:

    * Official Congressional information from Thomas, made available by GovTrack.us: bills, votes, committee reports, and more.
    * News articles about bills and Members of Congress from Google News.
    * Blog posts about bills and Members of Congress from Google Blog Search and Technorati.
    * Campaign contribution information for every Member of Congress from the website of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, OpenSecrets.org.
    * Congress Gossip Blog: a blog written by the site editors of OpenCongress that highlights useful news and blog reporting from around the web. The blog also solicits tips, either anonymous or attributed, from political insiders, citizen journalists, and the public in order to build public knowledge about Congress.

Index to current urban documents.

[0046-8908 ] Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1972-
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT123 .I453

(from cover page)The Index to Current Urban Documents makes available complete and detailed bibliographic descriptions of the majority of the local government documents issued annually by the largest cities and counties in the United States and Canada. With the cooperation and assistance of local government officials, public libraries, municipal reference libraries and major research libraries, the program attempts to catalog and index documents issued by 286 of the larger cities and their counties and regions." Copies of the documents themselves can be found in the accompanying microfilm collection in the Government Documents room.

Most useful for documents from 1972-late 90's, but other documents are included. Each volume includes two indexes: a geographical index and a subject index.

USDOJ: What We Do: Trafficking in Persons

"Government documents on trafficking in persons, "also known as 'human trafficking' ... a form of modern-day slavery. Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor ... and who may lack access to social safety nets, predominantly women and children in certain countries." Features reports on U.S. activities to combat trafficking in persons, policy papers, reports on Department of Justice cases involving human trafficking, and related resources." (via LII)

US Department of Justice, Enron Trial Exhibits and Releases

"This archive of documents from the 2006 federal prosecution of former Enron chief executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay provides "publicly released documents, including exhibits entered into evidence by the government and any press releases related to court proceedings." Documents include reports, memos, email messages, calendar entries, earnings releases, a list of witnesses, and more. From the U.S. Department of Justice." (via LII)