Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites

U.S. Government, Politics, and Law: Government Publications

Government Printing Office
Indexes and full text of U.S. government documents, including the U.S. Government Manual and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. There are various search engines, including the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, and lists of publications by agency. There is also a database of federal depository libraries, searchable by state or area code. The section on Congressional information includes a searchable index to the Congressional Record from 1983 to the present, searchable editions of the Congressional Directory from the 104th Congress to the present, a searchable index to Congressional hearings from 1997 to the present, and other tools.