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Government and Politics
- General
- Elections
2000 - Everything you might ever want to know about Election for the year 2000,
from the University of Michigan's Document Center.
- Electronic Activist -
Email address directory of congresspeople, state governments, and media entities.
- Ezgov.com - Online information for your federal,
state, and local government. Dedicated to answering any question you could possibly
have about governance.
- FindLaw: Online Legal Resources
- Home
- Findlaw Constitutional Law Center
- "An educational resource site focusing on the United States Constitution and
its societal impact. Includes historic documents, founding fathers, biographies,
Supreme Court decisions, and the hottest constitutional law topics."
- FindLaw Court Forms Site - Access over
8,000 forms from United States federal and state courts for free from one easy-to-use
location. The federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate,
district and bankruptcy courts and the state forms collection contains court forms
on topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. All the forms are
available in PDF format and are searchable by title or form number. FindLaw continually
updates the site by adding new and revised forms.
- FindLaw Search Site - Law, lawyer, legal,
and government information search site. Also includes: cases, codes, legal news,
forms, articles, and job listings.
- Google's Government Search Site
- Government Information Sources
- Govenrment Page at Yahoo
- A popular Internet directory and search engine.
- GovSpot.com - Federal, state and local government
resources. Quickly and easily find local, state, national and international resources,
government documents, election information and federal agencies, send e-mail to Washington,
follow hot issues and more. An excellent resource for social studies teachers and
students.
- Grassroots.com - Provides Internet-based
communications and mobilization tools and services that foster political action while
empowering individuals and organizations to effect positive, democratic change."
- Political Net - A gateway to political
information, news, discussions, and other political resources.
- SearchGov.com
- Search Systems - Large, free Public
Records directory.
- State government sites - In your Web brwoser, enter:
www.state.XX.us, where XX is the state's two-letter abbreviation.
- Tagish's Directory of Government
and Chambers of Commerce Web Sites for the USA
- University
of Michigan Government Document Center - A central reference and referral point
for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international.
Its Web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science,
statistical data, and news.
- Vote Smart - Information about the politcal
system, issues, candidates, and elected officials.
- Voter.com - The latest political news and
issues from the current election to campaign finance reform. Also, register to vote
online.
- Local:
- Michigan:
- Federal / National / United States Government
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Contact Information for Congress
- Economic Statistics Briefing
Room - Provides easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides
links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies.
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Federal Income Tax:
- EFTPS (Electronic Federal Tax Payment System)
- Consumers and businesses can file and pay yheir tax online, get 24 hours access
to their accounts, and set up automatic payments of estimated quarterly taxes.
- Federal Tax
FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Flat Tax Home Page - Proposed 17% flat
tax on all income to eliminate federal income tax.(Summary
of plan.)
- H.D. Vest Online - File your income
tax return with the help of their free online tax preparation and online tax filing.
Includes tax help, tax tips, tax forms, and many other benefits.
- H&R Block - "Online tax preparation
and mortgages, brokerage and financial services, Refund Rewards, consumer tips, calculators
and financial tools, and useful tax planning information."
- IRS (Internal Revenue
Service) -- The Digital Daily. Note: the text-only
version loads much faster.
- National Sales Tax
- Proposes 15% National Sales Tax to to eliminate federal income tax.
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - An
independent US government agency, directly responsible to Congress, and regulates
interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite
and cable.
- Federal Consumer Information Center
- "Answers to your questions about the Federal government and common consumer
issues. The citizen's help desk for everyday life."
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C.)
- Federal Election Commission (FEC)
- Federal Gateway - "Comprehensive resource
for US Government information, DOD, Department of Defense, federal government, executive
agencies, senate, white house, legislative branch, congress. FREE, efficient, directory
covers all the content from each public Web site, gives a perspective to the data,
enhances and suggests search direction--its message is 'don't search, focus!' "
- Federal Judiciary Homepage - News and
information about the Federal Courts.
- Federal Reserve System
- Federal Trade Commision
- Fedstats - Provides easy access to statistics
and information produced by more than 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies.
- FedWorld Information Network -
Access to thousands of U.S. Government Web sites, more than a 1/2 million U.S. Government
documents, databases, and other information products.
- FirstGov.gov - Official Web site for searching
the U.S. Government.
- FORMS FROM THE FEDS -
Government Publications Department, Regional Depository Library - "This page
offers downloadable government electronic forms. This list is not comprehensive,
but comprises those forms most asked for by the public."
- Government Links - MANY
United States (and Michigan) Government links.
- GovSearch: Government
Agencies, Departments & Resource Search Engines - "Use these fast and
subject-specific government search engines to find information about the government,
IRS documents, US Law Code and OSHA regulations and rulings."
- IRS (Internal Revenue Service):
- The Digital Daily.- "Income Tax
Forms, Instructions, Publications, Regulations, and other stuff." NOTE: For
older machines and/or Web browsers, the text-only
version loads much faster.
- Library of Congress - Their mission is to
make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and
to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future
generations.
- National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) - Exists "to ensure ready access to essential evidence . . .that documents
the rights of American citizens the actions of federal officials, and the national
experience."
- National Drug Control Policy,
Office of (ONDCP) - "Features White House Drug Policy initiatives, programs,
and publications. Find Drug Czar Barry R. McCaffrey's speeches, testimony and press
releases. Outlines National Drug Control Strategy goals and objectives."
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) - Responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting
from motor vehicle crashes.
- National Transportation Safety Board
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration
(OSHA) - Under the U.S. Department of Labor
- Presidents of the United States -
U of M's Internet Public Library POTUS site, an excellent source for finding information
on all U.S presidents. Included are: election returns, presidential term highlights,
first ladies, cabinet members, inaugural addresses, odd facts, and more.
- Selective Service Agency - Register online
with the Selective Service. The system accepts registrations with just a Social Security
number between 8 A.M. and 8 P.M weekdays.(Men are to register within 30 days of turning
18.)
- Smithsonian Institution - America's
Treasure House for Learning.
- Social Security Administration
- Main Site
- For Women - Basic information on retirement,
survivors and disability benefits, Supplemental Social Security Income benefits,
and Medicare benefits — pertinent to women.
- Supreme Court Colection - From
the Legal Inforamtion Institute at Cornell.
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- The
Constitution of the United States of America
- THOMAS - Legislative Information on the
Internet. In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a service of the U.S. Congress through
its Library. Subjects include: Congress This Week, Bills, Laws, Congressional Record,
Committee Information , Historical Documents, The Legislative Process, and U.S. Government
Internet Resources.
- U.S. Census Bureau - Home Page
- U.S. Congress - Legislative Infformation
on the Internet. Also known as THOMAS.)
- U.S.
Constitution - Complete text and all the Amendments.
- U.S. Copyright Office
- U.S. Department of ...
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Federal Court System
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- U.S. General Accounting Office - the investigative
arm of Congress, charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and disbursement
of public funds, GAO performs audits and evaluations of Government programs and activities.
- U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- U.S. Historical Documents - from
1600 to present
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Military:
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management - The Federal
Government's Human Resources Agency
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - "An
independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with responsibility for
administering the federal securities laws."
- U.S. Senate
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. State Department
- White House - LOTS to explore. Here are a few samples:
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library:
US Government Information Sources
- International
- Maps - Please see our Reference: Maps
section
- Political Parties
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